Brooke

I'm always posting pictures of Ainsley or Braxton (mostly Ainsley because she's old enough to cooperate), but never of my beautiful wife, Brooke. We recently moved into a new office, and I wanted to frame a picture of Brooke to put on the wall there. My favorite recent picture of her I took on Thanksgiving Day at Lakeside Inn in Mount Dora, FL. There were a couple of chairs down by the lake and we were actually setting them up to take a portrait of Ainsley and Braxton. I told Brooke to sit there so I could get the settings correct before we moved the kids in place (you don't get much time with them!). As soon as I snapped it, I knew I had a keeper. Brooke has one of the best smiles you've ever seen and for 1/1000th of a second, it was on full display! Of course I love how the light rims her out and the setting is perfect, but Brooke made this picture. Love you, Babe!

Black & White Assignment

For some reason I was drawn to this clock in The Villages yesterday afternoon. It was actually a great picture in color because of all the beautiful flowers around it, the palms, and the blue sky, but the assignment was for a black & white picture so that is what I did.

I processed this in CS3 using the Black & White adjustment layer. I started with the red filter to make the blue sky darker and then made some adjustments from there. I like the final outcome.

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Next week's assignment...

---Macro---

Use your macro lens (or fake it if you don't have one) and get a great close up shot. No rules on what the subject has to be. See you next week!