Abbie Turns 2

Well a little bit late, but I posted a few pictures of Abbie’s second birthday party at the house. Grandma and Grandpa came, Abbie really took a liking to ripping into her presents. She also likes to sing ‘Happy Birthday to me’.

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Thanksgiving 2007 at the Cabin

Well Thanksgiving at the cabin went by fast. We arrived Wednesday afternoon, there was a few inches of snow outside, Grandma and Grandpa had the inside toasty warm for our arrival. Mark, Jenny and the kids came Thursday morning with some fancy doughnuts for breakfast. Many walks through the woods, alot of great meals, including [...]

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Halloween 2007

Halloween was a great night for the kids, weather was warm and fairly dry. Nick spent his night with buddies and Allie was with her friends cross town, we all hooked up later in the evening and finished the night together. We stayed out until 9:30 and the kids both had huge bags of candy [...]

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HDR and Draganizer

     Here is another example of HDR, but with a twist. After converting multimple images in Photomatix, the image was then Draganized. This is an action in photoshop that is easily installed, you can download the action here.
The procedure seems to be sharpening, creating an overall color tone, “light painting” for shading, and adding [...]

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Portland’s Union Train Station HDR

         This image of Portland’s Union Train Station was taken at night, I combined 3 images (different exposures) from RAW. Left is straight from camera, on the right is the HDR conversion.  I used Photmatix to combine the images and then tweaked the master file with CS2. Below is the definition of HDR:
high dynamic [...]

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Allie on Steps

Took this of Allie as the sun was going down, magic hour really does exist. She had been playing with nick and Owen, so she was a bit sweaty. I enjoyed her smirk. Shot with the 50mm wide open (f|1.4) for a very shallow depth of field. Processing was basic, a few layers in Photoshop, [...]

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Abbie on a walk

Shot with the Canon 5D and the new macro lens (100mm  2.8)  Abbie and I were on a short walk to the store and she managed to slow down for a second and I snapped this off real quick.  I really liked her pose, it’s so graceful, it looks staged but isn’t. Processing was minimal, some dodge [...]

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