Jake And Catherine

Two of my most favorite little people;-) My brother Jacob and daughter Catherine!

Gary Sinise in The Lt. Dan Band

We got our picture taken with Gary Sinise in the Lt. Dan Band.We went yesterday and got plenty of pictures. I have started posting them on Flickr. For those that don't know who Gary Sinise is, he played Lt Dan in Forest Gump. This is also where the name of the band came from. He also plays in CSI: NY. We had a great time. It was a wonderful show. Catherine danced all through it. It was her first concert. We stayed at the back so it wasn't so loud for her. Joe went up front and took pictures for me. I wanted a picture of her with Gary but she fell asleep before we got up to see him and we could not get her to wake up. Then we got back to the car right after the picture, not even 10 minutes and she woke up all happy and giddy;-)a

Oh yeah, and its Gary Sinise's birthday today. Hes 53 years old. Hes is a good actor. I really like CSI: NY!

I didn't edit this picture because I felt it defeated the purpose of having our picture taken with him.

Another Beautiful Portrait Of A Princess

I say Princess because she already acts the part! But I don't mind! She is my love. I think that is why I take so many pictures of her. People tend to take more pictures of what they love and this little girl has stolen my heart before she was even born;-)

Pictures of My Daughter

I think it shows when you take pictures of people you love. This is my daughter Catherine. She is my heart;-)

ME

Here is a self-portrait! I put this image in neat image a few times. I used the Dynamic-HDR tool on this photo. It enhanced the color. I smoothed it out some usinf the smudge tool in the Adobe CS3 photoshop. I also enhanced the colors and used the Overlay tool in blending options.

This is one of my modeling pictures. I used to model a while back. Now I am on the other side of the camera!

Photography Quote!

"My portraits are more about me than they are about the people I photograph. "

Catherine's First Christmas

The Ultimate Santa Shot

Ingredients

1. Beautiful baby girl in a Christmas outfit of you’re choosing!

2. Find a place that has a Santa Clause!

3. A Sony Alpha DSLRA-100 or a digital camera of your choosing!

4. Adobe CS3 Photoshop!

5. WWW.PICNIK.COM For the frame!

6. Relatives to share these photos with!

Method

I took this photo at the Home Store on base here at Twentynine Palms two days before Christmas! I used the Gaussian blur to 3.5 capacities for the background so when people view this photo they will focus mainly on Catherine and Santa! This is important when you are taking pictures of people!

Then I enhanced the colors by using Adobe CS3! I went to adjustments and then match color! Then I used the enhance tool. I used it to my liking. Everyone is a bit different!

Then I used the Gaussian blur to capacity 13.5 then went to edit in the menu. I used Fade Gaussian Blur! I went to overlay at capacity 40! This was too dark!

So I mage a layer and used the Blending Option Screen! I used this at capacity 50.

I saved image!

Then I went to http://www.picnik.com/

where I got my frame! This is always optional! Some like it and some don't.


Anyway! This is what I did to this image! It was just a few enhancements but I like the results better. Catherine smiles all the time! It is hard to get her to smile behind the camera. One of us always has to get her to smile while the other is behind the camera. Sometimes it takes a while and can be a real job! She is a happy baby! I think the camera just confuses her!

This is a good idea for a gift for the relatives! Take some Christmas Pictures! Find that perfect holiday card and Walla instant Christmas Present! You can never have too many pictures. Our parents are always asking for pictures of Catherine. Why pay hundreds of Dollars for pictures when you can do it yourself and they look just as good or even better! This was our present for everyone this year. Of course we bought gifts for the kids in our family. We have a lot of kids in our family though!

Believe it or not it took four hours to find this Santa. We waited two days before Christmas to take these pictures! It was well worth the search. We got that perfect picture and Catherine looked just like a baby doll! I think kids make the holidays what they are.

I know it is late but I would like to wish everyone a happy holiday!