{"id":1425,"date":"2009-06-11T09:37:51","date_gmt":"2009-06-11T14:37:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.elisalou.com\/blog\/?p=1425"},"modified":"2009-06-11T09:37:51","modified_gmt":"2009-06-11T14:37:51","slug":"more-birthday-and-a-little-photog-talk","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.elisalou.com\/blog\/2009\/06\/11\/more-birthday-and-a-little-photog-talk\/","title":{"rendered":"More Birthday and a little photog talk"},"content":{"rendered":"

Ok before I load up the other birthday pictures I wanted to chat a bit about photography. <\/p>\n

Those that know me, or have read my blog for a while know that I have been into photography FOREVER. And when you have a hobby\/passion forever you tend to ebb and flow with it, trying new things, etc.<\/p>\n

Lately, well for the past 6 months at least I have been anti post-processing. I’m not sure how it started, I think a combo of being lazy, having 4 kids, running a biz…. I was so into learning about it for a while, have a bunch of blogs bookmarked (you know all the moms that start a photog biz), bought a lot of books…. But I don’t even have photoshop and now I know why. I don’t like post processed pictures. A little is ok<\/a> but the thing that bugs me the most is what I like to call “creepy eyes.” You know the ones, the babies with the weird faceted eyes that pop out of the picture. <\/p>\n

At first I thought it was cool- learned how to to do it with elements- layers, unsharp, dodge the eyes…. But then it hit me. Eyes don’t look like that in real life- why document your baby with weirdo eyes?<\/p>\n

I don’t know, it’s probably just me. I’m not against fixing flaws- my husband wouldn’t have a job if someone wasn’t working some serious magic on the VS catalog. \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n

And maybe it’s all an excuse as to why my pics look like crap lately. <\/p>\n

Moving on-Here are a few more pics from Blake’s birthday dinner <\/p>\n

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Last day of school for the older boys, hope the rain stops so the parties aren’t canceled!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Ok before I load up the other birthday pictures I wanted to chat a bit about photography. Those that know me, or have read my blog for a while know that I have been into photography FOREVER. And when you have a hobby\/passion forever you tend to ebb and flow with it, trying new things, etc. Lately, well for the past 6 months at least I have been anti post-processing. I’m not sure how it started, I think a combo of being lazy, having 4 kids, running a biz…. I was so into learning about it for a while, have a bunch of blogs bookmarked (you know all the moms that start a photog biz), bought a lot of books…. But I don’t even have photoshop and now I know why. I don’t like post processed pictures. A little is ok but the thing that bugs me the most is what I like to call “creepy eyes.” You know the ones, the babies with the weird faceted eyes that pop out of the picture. At first I thought it was cool- learned how to to do it with elements- layers, unsharp, dodge the eyes…. But then it hit me. Eyes don’t look like that in real life- why document your baby with weirdo eyes? I don’t know, it’s probably just me. I’m not against fixing flaws- my husband wouldn’t have a job if someone wasn’t working some serious magic on the VS catalog. \ud83d\ude42 And maybe it’s all an excuse as to why my pics look like crap lately. Moving on-Here are a few more pics from Blake’s birthday dinner Last day of school for the older boys, hope the rain stops so the parties aren’t canceled!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[8,16],"tags":[495],"class_list":["post-1425","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-family","category-photography","tag-no-more-creepy-eyes"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.elisalou.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1425","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.elisalou.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.elisalou.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.elisalou.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.elisalou.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1425"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.elisalou.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1425\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.elisalou.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1425"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.elisalou.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1425"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.elisalou.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1425"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}