Day 169: Summer fun in the sand

The first two are straight off the camera, except for watermarks.  I attempted to use ACR tonight and it reminded me a lot of Lightroom.  I think it’s a great tool for simple post processing, although I feel like I have less control than with Photoshop.  It’s probably more of a perception issue since I feel more comfortable with PS. 

I do like the recovery slider, since it’s more straightforward than attempting to recover the highlights in PS.  The only thing I don’t like is that when I save the photo from ACR it seems to make my photos cooler.  I think this is a color profile issue as it seems to set my profile to Adobe RGB when I save, rather than using sRGB.  I’ll have to figure out how to correct that problem.

They love to fling the sand around and I just love how these photos turned out.  The first one my camera focused on the sand particles and which blurred the kids…I think it's a pretty cool effect.  Adding texture without any editing!  (You can tell I don’t hold my camera straight.)

This one just screams fun to me.  It’s pure joy on Charlotte’s face. 

Cooper was fascinated with the sand flowing between his fingers.  I wish I had been sitting further back from him so I hadn’t chopped his head, and I probably could have used a higher f/stop so that when I focused on his hands, his face remained in focus as well.  I still love his expression though.

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Day 168: Not even trying

I was considering trying to really play with the late evening light that streams through the windows, but I just wasn’t up for taking photos tonight.  Here’s what I got for not even trying…poor composition and exposure, plus the focus is off on Cooper. 

Things in his mouth again!

Charlotte loves the laptop and gets so focused!

Day 167: Hands and Feet

They stripped down naked, played in the sink water, went potty (YAY!) and then asked for a bath.  The routine couldn’t have been easier tonight!

Day 166: Race Car Train Bed

My husband got a silly picture of Cooper eating his toe.  I swear he still puts EVERYTHING in his mouth!  I hope he eventually grows out of it.

Before I ever had children I always wondered how a child could ever get a bag over their head and suffocate.  Now I know.  Cooper and Charlotte are both loving hats these days and they think everything is a hat.  Cooper started to put this on bag on his head and I took the photo to remind me how easy it is for an accident to happen.  I will now be putting all plastic bags promptly in the trash, away from the children.  (This particular bag is the what the diapers are package in.) 

My children surprise me with their creativity.  I couldn’t figure ou t why I found a ton of cars between Charlotte’s mattress and bed frame, until they showed me!  Charlotte made her bed into a race car track!  Now if I could only get her to say rAce Car instead of rEE Tar (I absolutely hate the use of the R-word.  It is completely offensive, so it really bothers me that she can’t say this word properly.  Especially since she says it over and over and over several times a day.)

And how’s this for completely missing the focus on the car??