I ♥ FACES: BEFORE & AFTER

This week at I ♥ Faces Amy and Angie are taking a little break, so I get to post more than one photo! LOL! This week's topic is Before & After. What you do is post a picture {or two} from when you first started your photography skills. Then you post a picture of what your photography is like now, and how it has improved. It should be fun! Lets take a look and mine! :D

This was a few days after Lyla was born. I was just barley becoming serious about photography. At the time, I was extremely proud of this picture. I had just downloaded the GIMP, and learned how to use Selective Colorization. I still think this is a beautiful picture, but it could be better. :P

These two photos were during my "natural" phase of photography. I was trying to make every picture look natural, with natural light and all that jazz. However, it was quite hard. You see, my camera at the time was not that good of quality, which made picture taking pretty frustrating.

Ahh, the "over-used-eye-pop" stage. Lovely. I had just learned how to do an eye pop on my photo's and overdid it on almost EVERY single photo of Lyla. LOL! I was so excited that I could make her eyes sparkle, but now it just kinda looks freaky!

This was my "vignette" stage. I was trying to give my photo's a nice warm/soft look, so obviously it was with a vignette! Right? Haha, I think it looks OK, but not great. It needs to be feathered more.

FINALLY, I got a new camera. My beautiful Canon PowerShot. It is a more advanced camera, but not a DSLR. I guess you could say that it is what some call a "bridge" camera. Along with my little beauty, I also got version 7 of Photoshop. So with those two tools, I started taking better pictures. :)

You can see that this picture is much clearer, and is more natural looking. I downloaded some nice actions that helped a lot, but I then started doing something else......I OVER softened Lyla's face. She looked like bad airbrushed model! LOL!

Finally, I have the look I was trying for for so long. My photography is still evolving and changing. And I really want to learn as much as I can, but I think my pictures are starting to display me in them. I want photos that are fresh and different, retro and cool, sweet and classy. I think I am coming closer to reaching that goal, but I still have a long long way to go. I can't wait to continue my photography journey. :) Thanks for stopping by!