What country kids do for fun!

Filed Under farming, friends, jumping, photoshop, summer | 8 Comments

Our family has always been obsessed with taking pictures, one or more of us always has a camera handy to take pictures of anything that strikes our fancy! One of our fun summer activities has always been taking jumping pictures! Check out these jumping sites: livejournal, and flickr. I remember taking jumping pictures in my room in university, on the trampoline and our recent favourite in the wheat!

A few weekends ago we decided to do an impromptu photoshoot in the wheat.. so please pardon my baseball attire (Re: Short shorts) as I had just finished practice! Lauren, our married friends Laura & Matt, Scott and myself all took part (we may have had to force the guys). Here are some of my favourite pictures (not all jumping ones), stolen from Lauren’s facebook page.

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Spring Images

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Pretty cherry blossoms at the parents house.

Scott and I went to the barn today to mow the lawn. There were so many dandelions, it was a field of dandelions. Mowing also took forever because the grass was soo long! Dandelions are fun to take pictures of because they are so bright against the grass! However if you have allergies you probably wouldn’t think that…

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Photoshop

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Pioneer Woman has me obsessed with trying to conquer Photoshop. So far I have a few features that I’m getting good at, and I’m trying lots of new things! I don’t have the full photoshop, I have Elements, which is fine for me because if I had the full version I know I would be confused! The only reason I wish I had the full version is so I could download “Actions“, Pioneer Woman has a few of her own that you can use- for free! Using an action speeds up the editing process, it does many steps in 1 click of a button, so I hear.. Here are some before and afters that some of Pioneer Woman’s fans made.

Take a look at some of my before and afters.. got any pointers?

First up: My cute cat Chase.

2nd Example: I took this during the floods we had.

3rd Example: Scott planting corn. I am alone lots during the evenings now because Scott spends his time getting field work done, spring is a busy busy time for farmers! So when I bring him dinner, sometimes I decide to do photoshoots of him planting. So very exciting. (Getting fancy in this edit, I even straightened the picture!)

Another one from the field series. I tried cropping this one. I’m not really good at cropping, I always make it look awkward. And normally I’m happy with how the picture was in the first place. This one worked though, I think.

I actually showed you this picture before.. but what I didn’t tell you was that I edited the sidewalk! See in the Before lots of stuff on the path and I erased it like magic in the 2nd one. Skills I tell ya!

So there are some of my examples. What are your favourite editing tools on photoshop? Any tricks to teach me? Anything you would have done differently in my pictures?