Happy Halloween

Hope that everyone had a great Halloween. I know a good time was had by all at our house. Yes, Gaven had two different costumes. Why you might ask. That's just how we roll, and the fact that stuff only fits for a very short period of time. I'd have to say that my favorite trick or treater of the evening had to be the one who must shave more often than I do. He had the ever classic hoodie and a pillow case costume. The reason he stands out is because after I gave him candy he responded with " 'Preciate it yo." Classic.

Just wanted to share some more smiles and a little talking from Gaven.

Fun with Photoshop

I have never really been a big fan of photoshop in general. Trust me, I couldn't do my job without it, but I've never really had any desire to do much more than the basics with it. I use it to correct things that need correcting, but don't really spend a lot of time trying to "manufacture" images. My theory has always been to try and just get it right in the camera. As far as manipulation of images was concerned, I pretty much have stuck to color correction, spot removal, black and white conversion, and for laying out designs for advertisements or wedding albums. That's about it. For some reason yesterday I made a bit of a departure and actually truly manipulated images for my upcoming Take 7 show. Not sure why. I guess I have always had a problem with using the program to spend hours upon hours of time to essentially "polish turds." I'm kind of rambling at this point. . . I guess the point is that it can be ok if it adds to the image? I don't know. I just thought this turned out really well. Of course I could be biased based on the subject matter. . .