Sweet Violet Photography Challenge

The theme for the Sweet Violet photography challenge this week is Something Different. I've been wanting to try something different with my editing for awhile, and here was a push to do it now!

Faith herself had posted a tutorial a few weeks ago (I would link back, but I can't find it). In pse8, she used a black to grey gradient map, rather than a black to white gradient map. I loved the idea of it! Here is my result:

After processing in LR3, I put a duplicate layer of the background on screen at 25%, and then put the black to gray gradient map on top of that. I like how it turned out! It needs some tweaking before I am fully satisfied, but it's definitely a different edit than what I normally do.

New Year

Another new year is approaching. One that will be filled with good times, smiles & laughs, tears, memories, dreams, challenges, and new beginnings.

This cat will certainly be a challenge for me! Jon and I have "temporarily" acquired her while his parents are away visiting family. There's a good chance we will be keeping her, which means I have to learn how to take photos of her. My SOOC photo was very dark (see here), so I had to lighten it up in LR3 as best as I could. I know it's not great, but it's the best I could do.

Meet Katniss!

And if you know why we named her that, then you are awesome.

Quotography - Simple Things

Just a quick post to share a photo I recently edited, and fell in love with!

Linking up with Nicolasa and Deb Duty.