It was a wonderful way to spend a weekend morning! The country with its winding roads and lush green fields made a beautiful backdrop for this fun family!!! Thanks guys!!
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Long Time Friends!
Hello!
I hope everyone had a wonderful holiday season! We did! Now it’s on to making 2013 amazing!!
I’d like to share a recent session I shot. We’ve all been friends since high school. Our husbands even worked together at the local grocery store back then. You know it’s pretty incredible to stay close with people for that long. They have created a beautiful family with 3 gorgeous boys. To be able to spend the afternoon capturing these guys was an honor! (It was hard to choose which pics to post. 🙂 )
A Day at the Beach!!
So, I’ve been on a bit of a quest lately to find out my style of photography. What I’m realizing is I LOVE to capture “real” moments, hence the name Captured Moments by Mel. It’s been right in front of me the whole time. So as I was doing what another photographer, Brooke Snow, suggested, I went looking back through my photos. These beach photos jumped out at me. We went the weekend before school started (this was the first and only time all summer). I asked myself what it was I liked most about these. I had captured the girls enjoying themselves at the beach. “Real” moments with genuine emotion.
Some of these I used both actions and textures, and some I used only actions. I’ll list where both came from at the bottom of this post.
Textures and actions were used on the ones above. Textures were from Jessica Drossin Textures. http://www.jessicadrossintextures.blogspot.com/ and actions from MCP Actions. (Link below)
Actions from MCP Actions were used on these. https://www.mcpactions.com/actions/all-actions.html
Thought this little guy was so cute people watching!!
Thanks everyone for reading and I hope you enjoyed these like we enjoyed our day at the beach!!!
Late Afternoon Fun!
Just wanted to share these photos from a session I had last week. I’ve known this little gal for quite a few years now. In the beginning she was very quiet and stuck very close to mom. Let me tell you during this session, that all has changed!!! She was so full of life and laughter!! She even came up with her own ideas of how she thought the session should go. Soooo cute!! I definitely had a fantastic time!! Hope you enjoy her smiles as much as I did!!
Trip to the Pumpkin Patch
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This year has been flying by so incredibly fast. Halloween is almost upon us, and I realized we hadn’t done anything for the holiday other than buying costumes. We decided to take a much needed excursion to Lombardi Ranch and … Continue reading
It’s All About the Soccer!!!!
Well, we are in soccer season again. This year we have bumped up a level. It involves more practices, longer games, and hopefully the playoffs!!! My girl has decided that she is playing soccer from now on, which is fine by me. Maybe she’ll get a scholarship to help pay for college. That would rock!! Wait, I’m getting ahead of myself. I’m not ready to talk about her and college in the same sentence. She’s only in elementary school for crying out loud!! One kid close to college is enough right now! 🙂 Anyway, I just wanted to share a few shots.
Go Blue Lighting Buffalos! #6
And this is what the sister does during the soccer games!!
“Hand in Hand” by Papier et Fleur
Recently I did a photo shoot of something out of the ordinary for me. A new friend of mine creates shadow boxes. Now this is a term that I honestly hadn’t heard since I was younger. I was excited to see what she had created. When she first contacted me, she had 4 of them on already on display at a spa. I stopped by to take a look. All I can say is O-M-G!!! So much more than I had expected. Any of you that know me, know I am a total romantic! These shadow boxes were so amazing and told a romantic story!
So needless to say, I was very excited when she asked me to shoot her most recent shadowbox called “Hand in Hand.” I got to visit with her and find out a little more about her and her creations. Surprise, surprise, she is a romantic too!! Her home is filled with her inspirations. She takes such care in putting so many little details in every piece. For instance, all of the flowers are made from paper that she colors and creates individually. Blew my mind when I saw this up close.
With her permission, I thought I’d share some of the photos from the shoot. I hope you enjoy these as much as I did. Below, I’ll list her information if you are interested in contacting her or checking out her company out on Facebook.
Beautiful, isn’t it?!!
Papier et Fleur
Paper Creations
Handmade Original Creations
310-922-4585
papieretfleur@yahoo.com or Facebook: papier et fleur
Textures! Have You Tried Them?
Hey hey hey!!
So I have a friend that creates these AMAZING textures for photo editing. On top of that she uses them to create beautiful works of art! (I’ll list her Facebook info below.) I finally broke down and bought some. Thought I’d give it a try so, I’ve played with them a little. The realm of creative possibilities with these is endless!! I thought I’d share a couple of shots that I’ve applied textures to. One of these was created using a texture from my friend Jessica.
The texture I used in this one was from Jessica’s pack 1. I can’t remember which one I used. (That’s something I should better keep up with!) Check her out at Jessica Drossin Textures on Facebook. https://www.facebook.com/JessicaDrossinTextures
This texture was one I got from Flickr. (bFREE textureb from a href=httpwww.flickr.comphotosbeapiercesets72157601574009156NinianLifa)
I look forward to playing with these more and using them to enhance my work!! Thanks you awesome texture creators!!!
To all of you out there, try using textures yourself and see what happens!!
Until next time!! Keep on creating!!!
Does Your Image Change Color When It’s Uploaded to the Web?
This morning I finally finished my first photo blog post. A problem arose while working on it that I hadn’t experienced until recently. I’ve been uploading images to the web for a while now. Never had any problem with color changes. When I uploaded my images to put in my post, the color turned flat and dull. Whoa!! Couldn’t have my images looking like that for everyone to see! So, I started searching the internet for some help. I couldn’t find anything that worked for me but not for lack of trying.
Woke up today and decided to somehow find a solution to this problem. I opened up Photoshop and tried a few different Color Setting options. Finally, I found a combo that worked!! Hurray!!! Below I have listed the settings I used.
1) Open Photoshop.
2) Click the Edit menu and go down to Color Settings.
3) A Color Settings Dialogue Box will come up.
4) At the top you’ll see the Settings drop-down menu. Click on this.
5) Scroll down to North America Web/Internet. Click on this.
6) You’ll see that in the Working Spaces box, it changes the RGB drop-down menu to sRGB….
7) Go down to the Color Management Policies.
8) On the RGB drop-down menu, click to Convert to Working Space. Then click OK.
9) Next, open the image you want to upload. If it has a different working space than what you just selected, then the Embedded Profile Mismatch box comes up. Click to Convert to Working Space and click OK.
10) Then SAVE your image.
After doing this to all of the images I wanted to add to the web, I uploaded them to WordPress. Sure enough, they were all the PERFECT color!!! Yeah!!
I looked into setting it back to the best color setting for printing. The consensus that I seem to have come across is to set the Workspace RGB to sRGB… That is supposed to be the default for most uses.
Give this a try and see if you find it helpful!! I know I did!!
New Headshots for Hubby (again!)
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Hello to everyone! If you are a current subscriber to my old blog, you might be thinking “her husband’s headshots again? Really?” And that’s okay. 🙂 There is a point to my repetition. One of husband’s hats is actor, so … Continue reading
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