i heart faces "Play"

It is "Play" week at

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"Barefoot"

This weeks challenge is to promote....

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Fix it Friday

Its fix-it-Friday at I heart faces.

The original picture is below.

I loved this image when I saw it in my feeds so I just had to play along today.

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Week 17 "Smiles" at I Heart Faces

Its "Smiles" week at I heart faces....I chose this shot because this sweet boy just couldn't have a sweeter smile. Hope you enjoy it half as much as I do!

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i heart faces "Hands on"

When I saw this weeks theme I remembered a shot I took last year. Its one of my favorites. This family had just welcomed their little boy home and we met at the park to get some pictures. This one is sweet because it shows their sweet baby and toddler hands together with the strong hand of their dad.

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We ♥ Kisses Photo Challenge

Its "We ♥ Kisses" week at i heart faces

I took this shot last spring during an engagement session. I loved how the focus fit between the grasses. Its definitely one of my favorite kissing shots!
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Runners Up

The most recent weekly competition at i ♥ faces is a family theme...these were some of the images I was considering.

“We Are Family” at i ♥ faces

Its week three at i ♥ faces and this weeks theme is "Family". I had a hard time choosing between several images, but finally settled on this one.

I created this image for the family after I noticed a sticker on their car that said something about "Forever Family" from their adoption agency.

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If you are at all curious which images I didn't choose feel free to look here at my runners up!

i heart pets

This week at I ♥ Faces its a pet week. So I thought of this picture I had taken recently of a sweet little dog named Roo. So I decided to post it for the theme week.

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I ♥ Faces Week 23 ~Sepia~

Here are my entries for the I ♥ Faces contest.....

~Kids~

This is my neice. She is such a sweet girl and I love the sepia conversion on this!

~Adults~

Mama and her girl...such a sweet shot of the connection between these two.

Fix It Friday Week #15 @ I ♥ Faces

Fix it friday again....I love it! I have been taking a bit of a photography break in May with all the busy things going on, parties, soccer games, and yard work!! (Never ending yard work!) So the fix it friday's have been keeping my creative juices flowing!) I am using photoshop 7.0. Here is the original picture submitted by Jennifer from Confessions of a Working Mom.

My first edits were to lighten the image, boost the colors and sharpness, then make the eyes pop! I smoothed out the skin as well since the lightening process brought out the white fuzzies.

On this final draft I just enhanced the above version by cropping in close to her face and then running "Lovely and Ethereal" from PW. (one of my favorites!)

On this one I took the cropping even closer in and made the picture into a vertical layout. Then I ran "70's" action from PW (love her!) What would fix it friday be for me without a 70's action picture?! :)

Another Giveaway

Check out this cool giveaway for a camera bag...take a look at Tracy Joy's bags, http://tracyjoy.com/ then enter to win at the I ♥ Faces blogsite. Here are a few images of my favorites...

"Ponytail Princess" = Fix it Friday @ I ♥ Faces

This weeks photo comes from Katarina @ Rambunctious Joy. This sweet little girl is adorable.

The Original Image:

My first edit was to crop it and boost the colors, lighting and sharpness:

I then did a high contrast black and white:

I wanted to try a change the background a bit. I layered a texture over the image, lowered the opacity and then used a mask to remove the texture from the Ponytail Princess:

On this edit I extended the canvas on both sides of the little girl. Then I cloned the background in to create a continued background. I then boosted the colors, and ran PW's "Lovely and Ethereal":

Fix It Friday Week 13 @ I ♥ Faces

Fix it Friday again...yay!

This week we are fixing the following picture....the first thing I noticed was the bright background and underexposed subject. I thought of using PW's action to "dim the lights" and it worked beautifully. My edits are below...I tried not to do a bunch this week, but as I have said before, once I get started, I just don't want to stop! :)

ORIGINAL

Cropped, dimmed the lights and then lightened the girl, then ran "Lovely and Ethereal"

Rotated, cropped, dimmed the background, lightened the girl and ran 70's Action

Rotated, cropped, dimmed the lights and then lightened the girl, then ran "Lovely and Ethereal"

Same as above, but converted to black and white.

Same as above, but layered the black and white over the color, then used a layer mask to remove the b&w from the tulips.