Sisters' Portraits

As I've shared some of the pictures I took at my work of the kids.  The oldest sister has been coming to my center for a while and her little sister just started.  They are so great and the oldest has been posing for me and I feel like I've been able to get some great shots of  her.

I loved taking pictures of the kids with the dandelions in the background, I think it looks so cool, adds a lot to the portrait.

AdobeRGB vs. sRGB

I used to think it didn't matter which mode I shoot my pictures in and to an extent it doesn't.  I have found recently though that after editing the pictures to look great on my laptop, they turned out looking a little green on the web.  Here is an example of that.

Its a good photo, but he looks a little sea sick, or a little green. So after some help from the internet and my friends at Digital-photography-school.com I was able to figure out why.  It turns out that the internet runs on sRGB color space, which is smaller than the AdobeRGB color space my photo, so that when I shoot in AdobeRGB and edit it in AdobeRGB then upload it to the internet it clips the colors that are outside the sRGB color space.  Its a simple fix, with photoshop I just have to save the image as an sRGB for it to make the conversion for me and it does a great job of keeping the color.  If you want to read more about it you can check out the forum post I made.

Here is the picture after I saved it in sRGB.

Cupcakes

Deb took this beautiful photos of some of the cupcakes left over from my sisters wedding and some glass that my grandma had bought for my sister.

More Portraits

Here is another portrait I took a week ago.  He did such a good job posing and smiling.

Flowers

Had someone on Google+ suggest that I add more contrast to my photos to help them pop a little bit more. So, I started doing that. Here are two early samples.

Whidbey Sunrise 1

The first morning on Whidbey Island this weekend,  I got quite lucky, I woke up at 6:30, my normal time and instead of laying there, I decided to get up (mostly to see if there were nay salmon running), and I stumbled upon this beautiful sunrise.

Whidbey Island Sunrise

We had two beautiful sunrises on Whidbey Island, I'll post the other one another day.  Absolutely gorgeous.  I've been busy editing photos of portraits I did for the kids at work, so I haven't been posting as frequently.  It may be slow for another 2 weeks as we are shooting a wedding this weekend.  Exciting times.

Dahlias

One of my co-workers brought in some beautiful dahlias for us to plant for the kids.  I got them planted this week and then had to take a few photos.  They are such beautiful flowers.

More Eagle Shots

On Whidbey Island this weekend the Eagle made a close sweep by looking for some food.

Fish On

Went Fishing with my uncle and his cousin on Sunday.  It was a fabulous time (isn't it always when you catch a fish?).  My cousin was able to land a 17.5 lb King Salmon.  Pretty awesome.  Here is a picture of me with it.  And then there are some pictures of the Eagle coming down and grabbing some of the guts while we were cleaning it.

Edmonds Sunset

I got out to the sunset tonight just a little after the sun went down and the color was pretty amazing. Here are 2 shots from tonight, hope you enjoy.

Some more flowers

My grandma has some very beautiful flowers in her garden.  The dahlia's are so stunning (the first one).  They make for such a good picture.

San Juan Boat Trip (With Killer Whales)

This weekend we went on a boat trip with my dad up to the San Juan Islands.  It was a great trip.  I took my old camera as I know we often run into rough waves and didn't want my SLR getting rocked and tossed about the boat (not so good on mechanical parts).  So these pictures are quite as good as normal.  Also, I found it to be quite difficult to get a good picture with the boat constantly rocking.

You got the GPS right? And the Map?  

Too Late to turn around

Pirates!!! We had to fight them off, but we succeeded

Hey I think we can buy that place. 

Looking at Dececption Pass we saw even more fog, so we decided to go up through La Conner

Mount Baker

Cattle Point Lighthouse, San Juan Island

We saw killer whales off Lime Kiln, San Juan Island.  

They Got really close

We saw three full breaches, this was the best, its a little blurry full size, but it is so hard to get a good one. 

Splash

By this point, I had camera overload, I didn't know which way to look or point the camera.  Too much was going on.

They got the salmon corralled against the shore and were having a great feast. 

Deception pass on our way home, Amazing how the fog clears.