OK, I'm back.... I think

I've been busy since my last installment here so there is much to post, at least photo wise. After jamming through last minute Mother's Day orders, it was time for a visit from my sister and her family from Oregon. It was a house full of shutterbugs. We're quite a site on an outing, all of us with our gear out clicking away. Our poor children who become our defacto models, lol. So, without further ado, here is a select few of the photos from my camera at the various jaunts we ventured to.

Huntington Beach


Corona Del Mar - Remember what I said about our defacto models.... This is my niece Anna who is a good sport considering how often she is called upon to face the camera.





I had a little editing fun with these and the next series to follow. I'm experimenting with some of the presets in Lightroom. I used the Aged Photo preset to start off, then some tweaking of the Exposure, Blacks and saturation. On the second group of Anna and the others that follow, I used the same preset and tweaking but since I had errantly shot these in the wrong white balance setting (tungston), they all had a blue cast to them. I did do some correcting by adjusting the WB in Lightroom but there is still some blue casting. I left it alone because I liked the effect it left after applying the preset and tweaking. The effect adds some vignetting so I tweaked that a little too.

Nephew Eric Skim Boarding




Padraic trying his skills at skim boarding too




More later......