The Naptime Report: Bad Mommy, Cute Pictures

Wednesday, November 30, 2011

Bad Mommy, Cute Pictures

5 comments:

Kelsey said...: oh my heavens, that is so cute! I laughed when I read the blip on my blogger dashboard!; November 30, 2011 at 3:29 PM
Unknown said...: love it!; December 3, 2011 at 11:23 AM
Racheal Steppe said...: I love them!! Now I'm curious... how was your lighting and what camera settings did you use?? (If you don't mind sharing secrets!!) I did ones in daylight, but like the glow of these!!; December 5, 2011 at 5:17 AM
Abbey said...: Well, my lighting was pretty terrible because I wanted to take these before we put the lights on the tree. It was dark outside, and so I turned off the lights in the room and just used the ambient light from the next room.

Because of that, my ISO was cranked up to 1600, which explains the poor quality of the pics.

Have you read 'Understanding Exposure'? It's a great, quick read that really helped me understand how to shoot in manual mode. I've never gone back. :)

The other thing that really helps is Photoshop. I survived for a long time with GIMP (a free version), but now I have the real thing and I'm obsessed. I purchased a tutorial online called 'Clean Color', and that helped me understand how to edit my photos without using actions, which makes all the difference, in my opinion. There are lots of ways to do it, but that tutorial was great for me.

Hope that helps! :); December 5, 2011 at 12:38 PM
Nana said...: Don't mean to be prejudice but these are 2 of the most beautiful children I know, and what great picts!; December 8, 2011 at 2:54 PM

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