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Awesome. Thanks so much for your input everyone. I think I just stare at an image too much sometimes and I start seeing things that are not there. I usually edit my images and then go back a few days later to get a fresh perspective!

I love the origingality of this shot. Not sure if the green is

bleeding onto her skin color. What do you think?

One from a maternity session today. Suggestions welcome!

Yeah, my hubby did well. I just had the diamond re-set in June for our 5 year anniversary. It was in yellow gold before and I just prefer the look of the white gold. The setting is SO similar to my old setting just a different color of gold.

I think this is a beautiful portrait. However, it looks a little "foggy" on-line. Did you run an "unsharp" mask before posting it? If not try that for a little better clarity on-line. In Photoshop go to: Filter/usharp mask/settings as 200/.3/0 in that order. I ran it real quick and I think it looks a little better....maybe too sharp though.

This is another breast-cancer surviver model for the breast-cancer

calander. Any suggestions are welcome. I really struggle with older

people, by older I mean the ones I can actually POSE! I'm so used to

just clicking when a young child sits still long enough for me to

click the shutter! I think I may have needed to turn her another 10

degrees or so to HER right. I was hoping for greater DOF in the

flowers, but the shooting location was SO tight I had to sit her

dircetly in front of the flowers. A little separation would have

been nice to have.

I'm going to be breaking into the wedding market soon and decided to

do a little practice on my own ring today. I like the concept of

this photo...not sure about the colors...but I am digging the lines

in the photo. Gotta love wood grain!

Thanks so much for the wonderful comments and ideas. It rained at the beach today, so it looks like this is going to be it! I think they'll love it. It's still going to be a last minute decision on the color vs. b/w. I'm thinking b/w ONLY because it'll then "go" in all rooms of the house. Most of the walls are ORANGE in Grammy and Poppy's house and I"m not sure how the color would look on orange walls!

Stunning!

Yes, she was crying...see this attachment for the next picture on my memory card! LOL

This is a color version with a watercolor treatment. Which do you like better? The water color treatment is a little hard to see online.

Trying so hard to get a good picture of the four cousins for

grandparents day. This was the best one of the bunch. Trying again

on Sunday at the beach! LOL Why is it so hard to photograph your own

family?

I think you nailed the hardest part of great exposure in high key. I'm not one for the soft filter look though...but that is just personal taste.

Great

This body art was done in honor of breast cancer awareness. They are

compiling a group of breast cancer models for a breast cancer

calander. She is family to me and has had 2 rounds of breast

cancer. Her second masectomy was done a few weeks ago, with chemo

starting for her again in a few weeks.

ISO 400, SS 125, f2.8 Suggestions welcome!

Excellent work. You are obviously a skilled photographer. You've played with apetures to obtain creative focus and your exposure is consistent in all the images. I think you've done a fine job!

Really cool!

This is an astonishing photo! Becareful...the world of photography is additicing as any drug! You'll love it!

I've been in a black and white mood lately. Strange for a color

girl. Suggestions on the conversion welcome.

Geeze....sorry for the triple post here..I keep noticing things...ISO 400 is the HIGHEST you'll want to go w/ our little camera if at all possible....after 400 you WILL get noise. I keep mine on 200 unless I'm REALLY desperate!

Hey...we shoot with the same camera!!!!! Go D70s! So no, it's really NOT the camera!

The NOISE in the DARK parts of the photo, like you are talking about (neck, creases, ect.), is caused by UNDER-exposure. Digital photography can be tricky...it's best to underexpose because if you OVER-expose there is NO way to get back what you have burnt out, unless you shoot raw, and even then it can be hard. BUT....if you UNDER-expose too much...you get noise. Did you use a lightmeter to test for correct exposure? Anyway that is what the noise is coming from.

I wanted some "trash the tutu" type style pictures, but she was so

cranky because of teething that she just wanted Daddy! Suggestions

welcome.

Just had to try it!

Playing with b/w conversions. Let me know what you think as b/w is a

difficult area for me!