01.24.14 iPhone Challenge-Maria and Adriania

January 25, 2014 iPhone Challenge – Maria and Adrianna

01.24.14 iPhone Challenge-Maria and Adriania

This is my niece Maria and her daughter Adrianna from this afternoon and I really like how this picture turned out. I wanted a picture of the two of them together that had a vintage film look to it and while this isn’t the way the picture started out, it is what I had envisioned in my minds eye as I was shooting it. I knew I wanted something in tight on Adrianna with good light and mom slightly out of focus and a little darker in the background.

I shot the picture with the built-in camera on the iPhone 4S. Afterwards I opened the photo in Snapseed, cropped it a little, did a little burning down on the edges and the highlights. Next I applied the grunge filter set to it until I had the look that I was going for and then used the center focus to blur the edges slightly before I applied the border that gave it a vintage photograph look.

11.19.14 Weekly Challenge-People I Know

January 25, 2014 – 52 Week Challenge – People I Know

11.19.14 Weekly Challenge-People I Know

For this weeks challenge I’ve chosen a photoof my nephew Xaiver and his sister Adrianna as he cuddled with her this afternoon on the couch.

When dealing with photographing kids this age most times you have to be patient and shoot a lot of pictures to get that just right photo. This one didn’t take that many or that long though. I just sat on the opposite end of the couch and waited. I think the whole tame frame wasn’t more than about two minutes till I had this shot.

Exposure info: 1/60th, f/2.8 ISO 4,000 with my Nikon D800 and a Sigma 24-70 lens at 34mm.