My 20's Man

So I haven't been blogging much lately. I have been trying to get my other blog ready for the one year birthday & 100th post. Which is today by the way. Happy Birthday to THE TYSON TIMES! I will promise to try and be better. How can I expect my blog to start thriving If I can't keep up with it. I gotta start going out there and taking more pictures too. Definitely a must!!! Well I had a mini photoshoot with my son recently. I put him in this adorable outfit and after many attempts inside the house where he just would not sit still for me, we moved outside where I got some AWESOME shots. He reminded me a little 20's man waiting for his wife to come home. AWW how adorable it would have been if we had a little girl by his side. maybe i can find one for next time.

Outside was perfect because he was a little out of comfort zone so he was able to follow direction more [well as much as an 18 month old could] and able to sit still for longer periods of time. Here are a few of the shots i got. As you can tell my photoshop skills are getting better as well.

aww my little baby is growing up!

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Photo of the Week: Grandma Stacey & Tyson

a picture I caught while doing a mini photoshoot with Tyson of him and his grandma Stacey. I didnt really have many pictures of them together so glad this one came out so nicely. I was shooting Tyson and Grandma was walking up behind me and as soon as he saw her his eyes lit up and he went for the hug. This picture is just beautiful. Time to make a scrapbook page with it now. :)

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Photo Challenge: Halloween Dress-up

So this week over at I♥faces the challenge is Halloween dress up. Ever since I got my son's costume I have been dressing him up in it all the time just because I think its so cute. One of my favorite parts is how his curly little hair sticks out.

I love that I get to share this picture with everyone. Hope you like my little "King of the Jungle" as much as I do!




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Photo Challenge: BLUE

So this week's theme over at I♥faces is BLUE. It can represent the emotion of feeling blue but also must have the color strongly featured. I think mine does a good job of representing both.

This picture was taken on one of the first photoshoots I went on upon receiving my SLR camera. And when i say photoshoot it doesnt mean professionally. :) We went hiking and I had just changed my son's diaper and he didnt want to get back in his stroller. His sad face is just absolutely adorable but I'm sure he didn't appreciate mommy whippin out the camera and snapping pictures while he's upset. I immediately thought of this picture because at first I was thinking of portraying the feeling but coincidentally he was wearing blue as well...and we cant forget those beautiful blue eyes.

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Head Shot

So people have been telling me FOREVER that I need to get my son into modeling. I thought so as well but it just wasnt high on my list. Well randomly the other day I was thinking that maybe I should try to make good use of my camera and try taking some pictures to send it to see how they would come out. Man did I discover photoshops wonders.



So here's my original. SOOC (straight out of camera). Definitely not a bad picture at all but doesnt stand out too much and if I'm gonna send them in I want it to catch someone's eye. Particularly good considering he was crying before this and I couldnt get him to smile at all so happy I caught this while he was happy.

Well I used photoshop to try and enhance his features. Of course I used my favorite "PERFECT PORTRAIT" action from CoffeeShop to soften his skin, bring out his eyes, and give the overall picture just a vibrant color. I added his name to the bottom to give it more of a professional look. To me, this literally looks like it could be a professional type headshot. I mean of course besides that fact that I cut the top of his head off, but I couldnt get him to smile again after this so I had to work with what I had. Now to the printer to print them out and start sending 'em in.

Wish him luck!

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