I Heart Faces Purple Challenge | Flower Mound, TX Portrait Photographer

This week on I Heart Faces, the photo challenge theme is "Purple", I thought how perfect I just took this adorable capture of my best friend's 3 month old beauty with a purple petal hat I made. Since I just posted a similar shot in her Sneak Peek, I thought I'd play with adding a texture to change it up a bit.

Sneak Peek of Beautiful Miss. L | DFW, TX baby/infant photographer

My best friend's beautiful daughter is 3 months old, it seems like yesterday I photographed her as a newborn. You can see them here
http://www.robinkelmphotography.com/2010/04/beautiful-baby-sister-dfw-texas-newborn.html









Wearing her mommy's dress.

Sneak Peek-Fun in the sun with the H. Family | Flower Mound/Highland Village, TX Family Photographer

The H.'s are a fun loving family! After re-scheduling because of stormy weather the previous day we were pleasantly surprised to see the sun shining so bright on Sunday morning.





B. is one proud big brother!




Little Miss. E. I last photographed her as a newborn back in Dec., now she's over 6 months old! Here she is then http://www.robinkelmphotography.com/2009/12/miss-e.html

Vacation | Flower Mound, TX child photographer

Last week my family drove down to the Texas coast (South Padre Island) to enjoy some much needed relaxation on the beach. Unfortunitly Hurricane Alex decided to creap up into the Texas Gulf and it ended our beach vacation 2 days early. Luckily we were able to enjoy a day and a half of beach fun!

My 15 month old enjoying the sand and making a funny face.


My older daughter asleep on an Eco/Dolphin Boat Tour


A ship in the Gulf


The Island




Aquatic life at the Texas State Aquarium in Corpus Christi

I Heart Faces "Fix It Friday" # 59

Here is today's adorable subject for I Heart Faces "Fix It Friday" #59. This photo was submitted by Julie Rivera from Julie Rivera Photography.

Original


My edits:

Cropped, I made a color balance adjustment to remove some red and add a tiny bit of yellow, followed by a levels adjustment, and burned the edges to help pop the subject.

Black and white conversion

After cropping, I made a color balance adjustment to remove some of the red, then levels adjustment, and applied "Lemon Drops, perfect b/w" action.

Vanilla Pop

Again after crop followed by a color balance adjustment to remove red, levels adjustment, and then applied "Bees Knees, vanilla pop" action.

Texture

Used the original color edit, ran MCP's texture applicator and found a texture to apply.

Just my girls | Flower Mound, TX Children's photograher

As a mom you crave good photographs of your own children and as a photographer I seem to be more successful with other people's children. I took my girls out to our backyard in two separate attempts to get these pictures. The first evening my older one was more cooperative and the 2nd night I finally captured some decent shots of my younger duaghter.

Here are some of my favorites...

My almost 3 1/2 year old.


I just love these curls! You would have never known what her hair would look like at 3, she was born with dark brown straight hair!





My almost 15 month old.

I Heart Faces Fix It Friday #57 | Flower Mound, TX Photography

Here is I Heart Faces Fix It Friday #57.


I tried some post processing different from my usual editing.

Original


Color


I made adjustments in levels, curves, removed some of the baby red with an action called "baby skin", and added a warming filter

Black and White


Added an "airy b/w" conversion to adjustments from the color version.

Spritzer


Added Michelle Black's action called "Spritzer".