Turning Two!

Well I have been very busy today! I am trying to get set up to be able to take credit cards and was doing research on it most of the day! I just wanted to hop on and post a couple pictures from William's Birthday Party! I will try to post more tomorrow but here are a couple

Congratulations Courtney and Brian

I got a few hours of sleep last night then woke up bright and early to start working on Courtney and Brian's Wedding pictures! I had such a good time shooting their wedding! The poor mom of the bride was so stressed out right before the wedding and it was so nice to see her get to relax and enjoy her family and friends during the reception! The dad had us all cracking up! He reminds me a lot of my own dad with his jokester way. The groom, Brian, and all of his grooms men were enjoying the festivities and was at complete ease the entire day! Not a worried bone in him! And the bride. . . Well Courtney is absolutely GORGEOUS! You could tell that Brian and Courtney were completely in love! They were such a wonderful couple to work with! I would be honored to take pictures for them anytime!

The ceremony was held at Edwards Mansion in Redlands, CA. This is the second wedding I have shot there and I really love how organized the staff is! The wedding coordinator was a sweetheart, and the DJ played some AWESOME music. Overall it was a great night!

I just again want to congratulate Courtney and Brian and here is your sneak peak!

I'm WHOOPED!

Today was a busy day! I started out by waking up at 630am, where I put some clothes in the laundry. Then I made sure all of my camera batteries were charged and that all of my memory cards were empty! I also discovered that my hubby had stolen some of my AA batteries so I sent him to the store to buy me more while I jumped in the shower. Once I was ready it was time to go! First stop William's birthday party! William turns TWO on March 31st! After his birthday I went home ate lunch and immediately went to Courtney and Brian's Wedding! They are an adorable couple and I had a blast shooting their wedding! Here are a couple sneak peaks of their wedding pictures! More to come later but right now I am exhausted!







I will try to post more pics tomorrow along with some pics from William's birthday party!

Obsession

I think I need to confess. . . that I have this small obsession. . . with HDR pictures! For those of you who don't know what HDR is it basically means that you take 3 pics and combine them to give you a really freakin cool picture! I decided that I need to make HDR pictures. There is only one slight problem with that though, I have nothing interesting to take a picture of! SO just so I could get an idea of HOW to create an HDR image I took a snapshot of the "sunset"

just a reminder!

Just wanted to remind everyone to check out my website! I will be having some exciting new changes happening! So check it out often to see the latest things www.TurtleDovePhotography.NET

San Diego Wild Animal Park

We went to the San Diego Wild Animal Park on Sunday. It was fun although the weather couldn't make up it's mind! One second it would be cloudy and freezing and the next it would be sunny and warm!!!

Regardless it is a great place to take pictures :)

The Great Escape

Well I knew this day would come but did it HAVE to come today :(

ahhh work

So this was my view when I arrived to my morning job.

Bloggin is hard work

It has come to my attention that I have been slacking on my blog the last couple weeks! I have realized that blogging is NOT an easy thing to do. And as much as I love to blog between work, family, friends and being sick,I am not updating it on a regular basis! I am hoping to get back into the swing of things once my cold goes farewell!

SOOO for todays post I would like to of course share a couple fun pictures :)

I thought the fact that there were SO many different reflections all at once was neat and I just HAD to take a picture of it :)



And I love this picture of my daughter! When we left the penguin exhibit at SeaWorld it dropped us off in the gift shop! My daughter happened to pick up this adorable little penguin and when my husband noticed that the brand name was "AURORA" he couldn't resist her sweet little face asking please! After all it DID have her name on it lol! Well she couldn't have been more thrilled when she realized she got to keep this furry little guy!

Got milk?

Yes we are crazy! Yes we got strange looks doing this! Did we care? NO! ok I didn't but after one shot they decided they'd had enough lol My husband's T looks more like a W what a loser lol

Why Editing is important

I took some headshots early this morning for Frank.

I have been doing the [b]school and I really liked [b]'s idea of showing before and after pictures. I am going to use this morning's session in hopes that this will help some of my friends, family, and clients understand why editing is so important. I take pride in the pictures I take and I want to make sure that I deliver the best possible images to you. When I take a picture Straight Out Of Camera (SOOC) it is a decent shot but that extra little bit of editing can really make that picture 'POP'.

Here is a SOOC picture not a bad picture and fine until you see the edited version



Here is that same picture edited



Here is a SOOC picture



Here is the same picture edited



Now this is what happens when you take a SOOC picture and convert it to black and white using typical programs



Now here is the edited version converted with a typical program. It is slightly better than the SOOC picture but it is still lacking something.


And lastly here is the edited version converted using several different methods to make a nice contrasty black and white


I think that you will all agree that the fully edited pictures are much nicer than the SOOC images. They all tend to look brighter and more lively. I hope this example shows why it takes me so long to edit your pictures :)

Lazy Sunday

Well not really, I have been cleaning almost ALL day! I stopped by my parents house this morning to pick up my order of Girl Scout Cookies YUM! They must have given me a sugar high, because as soon as I got home I started cleaning!!! I have a lot to do and only 30 days to do it. My friend is going to be moving in with us and I need to clear out the room she is going to be staying in. Sadly I haven't gotten around to that part of the house yet! I did the living room, kitchen and a TON of clothes folding. Once I get all of the clothes off of my bed I plan to get rid of our bed and use the bed in the spare bedroom. Overall there is just a ton to do. Who knew renovating a house would be so much work! ;)

Anyway I just wanted to share a couple snap shots of my kids today :)

Maryanne

I did a maternity shoot for an adorable family today! The mom is 7 months pregnant and a complete sweet heart! The little boy is 3 1/2 and a genius! I had fun getting him to make funny faces lol I am every parents worst dream HA! And the dad looked at his family like they were his whole world! I wanted to share a couple sneak peaks from my session today!