An uh-oh from the Pumpkin Patch

I knew right when I saw this photo that if I could manage to fix it, that it would be my Before & After/Touch Up Tuesday for this week! I took Little Man to the Pumpkin patch last week to pick out a pumpkin to carve {which, we have still yet to do} and to take some more birthday pictures. When I got there, he jumped out of the car immediately and started doing all sorts of cute things. I started snapping photos right away and failed to double check my White Balance. When I stopped and looked at the first 5 shots I had taken, I realized that my WB was set to Tungsten Light instead of Auto or Daylight. So this was what I got:

 
BUT…I managed to save it. First I adjusted the layers to brighten it a bit. Then I ran The Pioneer Woman’s “Warmer” action 3 times. I then ran Pioneer Woman’s “Boost” action to brighten the colors. After that I bumped up the contrast and the brightness a tiny bit, ran PW “Define & Sharpen,” the Warming Action again and erased it from his eyes. I wanted to warm up everything around him, but I like to keep as much blue in his eyes as possible. The warming actions were pulling out more hazel. Because I had boosted up the colors and fixed the levels so much, there was a lot of noise in the green bushes behind Little Man. To fix this, I went in and ran the “Reduce Color Noise” filter in PSE 8. And voila! This is what I got:

 
Another exciting salvage for me! I love fixing my “whoops” photos! It’s so much fun taking something that should technically be considered ruined and turning it into something useable and beautiful!

This week, Faith over at Simplicity’s theme is Straight out of Camera. I don’t generally enjoy sharing SOOC shots because I really don’t enjoy people critiquing my imperfect skills when it comes to shooting in manual because I like to spruce my photos up…brighten the color, up the contrast…BUT since that’s the theme this week, I’ll share one {can you tell I’m grumbling?}

Happy Tuesday, everyone!

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Tuesday, Tuesday, Tuesday

I’m back, folks. I feel like I have been gone forever because I haven’t A) Posted a lot in the past week; and B) Visited/Commented on your posts this past week. But today, I am here. Be excited. :-) And with me I’ve brought a few photos…

   I’m linking this photo up with Faith @ Simplicity for her Light theme, with Darcy @ My 3 Boybarians for Sweet Shot Tuesday, and with Chelsea over at Paper Heart Camera for Touch Up Tuesday. Check these ladies out and Enjoy your Tuesday!!

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SOOC Saturday

It’s time for another SOOC {Straight out of Camera} Saturday with Slurping Life. In case you’ve never played along, or have never seen one of the entries for this fun little blog hop the rules are simple: No Editing! Here is one of my favorite shots from my little around the house photo walk the other day.

 

 

 

Hope everyone has a great Saturday!

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SOOC Saturday

This is the first time I’ve played along with this challenge. It’s SOOC [Straight Out of Camera-which means no editing] Saturday. I’ll be honest, editing photos is one of my favorite things about photography. You can capture beautiful moments on camera, but editing turns them into something phenomenal. As I mentioned before, I recently started shooting some in full manual. I haven’t done it on any of my indoor shots [what few I take] yet, but I’m really starting to get the hang of it outdoors. And I’m in love with the results. Here is my SOOC shot of Little Man from this past week.

 

This is why I love full manual. I was able to capture all of the colors for what they were in this photo. Even though it was semi-cloudy and rainy outside. Head on over to Slurping Life for more SOOC Shots!

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