Who Likes Daisies?

I do!

I do!

I do!

First Sign of Spring

And also the first time I've used texture in PS, and also a vignette!

Finally Something NOT Orange

More Best Shots today at Picture This.

Pumpkin Blossom Star

See the other STARS today at Picture This.

Yellow to Orange

I just discovered in Photoshop that in the "Quick Fix" section of buttons, I can play with the hue and temperature and saturation. I took a kind of blah picture of a yellow flower and and brightened it up into orange. I like how the green in the background came out too. I'm trying to change things up a bit from my usual yellow-flower-in-the-middle-of-the-frame shots.

Original:

Inspiration

I don't know much about the intricate settings of my camera. I don't actually know how to deal with this whole "white balance" thing. I don't know what I would adjust things to if used the "S," "A," or "M" modes.

But I am inspired.

I love to take pictures and I love the pictures I take. I love to slip the memory card into the computer and see the bright, glowing, colorful image I have captured. I am surprised every time. I am surprised at how accurately I captured something I could see with my eye, and even more impressed when I capture something I could not.

I love this scraggly flower!

Rose

I barely scratch the surface when I use Photoshop. It's not intuitive to me. I can do some basic editing, but when I want to do something that is more complicated I have to follow step by step instructions from this book. Most of the time I just try some of the "Quick Fix" buttons and that about does it for me. WIth this photo, I only bumped one of the quick fix buttons, either color, levels, or contrast and I can't remember which one.


Wow, I'm on a roll with the once a month posting! I guess I feel like I share my photos a lot through Flickr. If you are not my friend in Flickr, please add me as a contact, so that I can share a lot more pictures with you. I reserve the best photos for my friends and family. And by best, I mean the pictures of my kids.

Flowers

I just really like taking pictures of flowers. Even when they are weeds and in the middle of unattractive places, I really like to get in close.

Flower

Hey, Why is Your Wife Taking Pictures of Weeds?

Flower with Bee

Have I mentioned I LOVE my new camera? I think I've told my husband about 12 gazillion times. He is happy I like it, of course, but I think his eyes are glazing over as he tallies the amount of hard disk space we will need to store all of my masterpieces.

I also posted my spectacle at MotherBunny.