Tuesday Session [Rochester Hills, MI]

Beach Fun Photo Challenge [iheartfaces]

This weeks challenge on iheartfaces is the beach fun theme! How can you not have fun at the beach?! I love it and wished I lived ON a beach. Well, maybe not year-round, but during the summer would be nice! My entry into the contest features my daughter jumping into the lake. My aunt and uncle have a beautiful place up-north right on the beach. The kids love to be able to walk out the door and they're at the beach where they can swim, fish, and just hang out. It's a hike to get there (an over four hour long car drive) so we don't get up there as often as we'd like. When we are there, we enjoy it immensely and most of the time is spent, you guess it, on the beach!

Don't forget to check out the other entries at:

Sneak Peaks

Baby M is almost a year old. We did a cake smash and he had a lot of fun playing in the cake and I had a lot of fun photographing him :)

The H Family won a free session from me from the contest I ran not too long ago. What a great family! I really enjoyed our session yesterday!

Sunday Sessions : Clinton Township Photographer

I had two really fun sessions today. The first one was a cake smash with an adorable lil boy. It was really fun and I got some really cute shots of him with his cake. The second session was a family session at a local park and I think we all had a really nice time. The boys were adorable and I had a lot of fun photographing them (their parents too!). I'll be posting some sneak peak shots soon!

Fix-It-Friday (a day late!)

I've been so busy I forgot to post my Fix-It-Friday edits from iheartfaces

So here we go! 

First one is the original photo. It's super cute but the colors are a little too dull for my liking:

In my first edit, I popped the colors more and adjusted the clarity and cropped the image. 

In this edit, I desaturated and sharpened as well as cropped.

And my final edit for this photo, I played around with the colors and exposure to give it a more vintage feel. I again cropped the image. 

You can check out more fabulous edits as well as get tips on how to do some of the edits by clicking the ihearttfaces button below! Have fun and have a great weekend! 

Reminder: Cider Mill Mini-Sessions

**I have a few available spots left if you'd like to take advantage of this offer! Please let me know asap!**

Cider Mill time is right around the corner! On September 19th (rain date Sept. 26), I will be out at Yates Cider Mill from 11am until 4pm and running a mini-session special. $50 will get you 30 minutes and a disk with all edited photos on it. Want the family dog in the photo too? Yates is dog friendly! Sign up now to reserve your space! 

It's Friday!

Yay, it's Friday! Not only is it just Friday, but it's Friday the 13th (are you superstitious?) AND it's iheartfaces Fix-It Friday! I had a lot of fun with editing this photo (as you can tell!). What a cute little guy and those eyes are just stunning!

The Original:

Edit #1

edited in CS3

Defog, Color Pop, Cropped

Edit #2

edited in CS3

Defog, Color Pop, Converted to black and white, cropped

Edit #3

edited in Lightroom 2.3

Self-created action (Meadows) and cropped

Edit #4

edited in Lightroom 2.3

gave it a vintage look with a self-created action, cropped and added some vignetting

Edit #5

edited with Lightroom 2.3

used action PH Surreal Moment and cropped

Edit #6

edited in Lightroom 2.3

self-created action (DreamsAgain), cropped and slightly rotated

Cider Mill Mini-Sessions

Cider Mill time is right around the corner! On September 19th (rain date Sept. 26), I will be out at Yates Cider Mill from 11am until 4pm and running a mini-session special. $50 will get you 30 minutes and a disk with all edited photos on it. Want the family dog in the photo too? Yates is dog friendly! Sign up now to reserve your space! 

Yates Cider Mill is located in Rochester Hills, MI at Dequindre and Avon Roads (23 mile). 

Check out their website at: YATES

(and don't forget the cider and donuts while you're there!)

First Communion

Fix-It-Friday #65

Another Fix-It-Friday from iheartfaces! I just love this lil guy's bright blue eyes! He is such a cutie!

The Original


Edit #1, ran through CS3 with a defog and color pop


Edit #2, ran through Lightroom and used a b&w converter preset


Edit #3, again in Lightroom, a tighter crop, used Creative Catalyst 19 preset


Edit #4, Lightroom, even tighter crop, used a preset called Metropolis


Check out more edits and gain some great tips and you can even submit your own edits!