Archive for Before & After

Before & After — Flashback Harry Picture

Monica at Pixel Perfect Blog hosted the Before & After blog hop for more than a year. I’m very excited to start hosting it here! Here’s how it works: Whether you’re an amateur, h...

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Before & After — Canon Rebel Edition

So at the State Fair back in September, my Canon 5D had an unfortunate encounter with a leaky sippy cup. It hasn’t worked since (sob!), and while I do plan to send it in to Canon, I also managed...

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Before & After — First in 2011

The last time I participated in Pixel Perfect’s Before & After Blog Hop was the day before Harry was born. It is strange, now, to think about me sitting at home that Thursday night, blogging...

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Underexposed — Before & After

Sometimes, I take a shot to figure out the exposure before adjusting my settings, especially when the light is behind my subject like below. But sometimes that test shot is the best expression of the ...

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Before & After — Fall Photo Session Edition

Little C. is too cute! Before: After: Shot with Canon 50mm 1.4 + 5D. Edited with Photoshop CS3. I didn’t do much. Changed white balance, cropped, soft light layer, sharpened. (Oh I wish I hadn&#...

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Before & After — Senior Session

I had a senior session last weekend with my coworker’s son. It was an amazing day, and we met in my favorite spot in downtown Minneapolis. It was magic light. Before: After: I adjusted the white...

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Before & After — Baby in a Wagon

Before: After: Ooof that SOOC was underexposed! For this one, I just played around in Lightroom until I liked it. I typically don’t process my images with a tint or a vintage-like style, but I l...

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Before & After — Lightroom Presets

I don’t use Lightroom presets very often, because I typically just do very minor editing in LR, and don’t need to. But today I grabbed an unedited photo from my archives with the intent of...

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Before & After — Hue/Saturation

Before: After: Oh, I did a lot. Here’s what I did: rotated the straighten the horizon. Fixed the White Balance (baby was way too blue). Changing the WB made the house color off, so I used the hu...

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Before & After — Eller Edition

It’s time for the Pixel Perfect Blog Hop! I take a weekly photo of Eller for 52 Weeks for Dogs, and have been wanting to get a nice, warm one of him with flare. I’m also trying to change u...

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