I Heart Faces | Let's Hear It For The Boys {Sacramento Family Photographer}

This week's theme over at I heart Faces is "Let's hear it for the boys". These are mine :) I love this photo and the fun they are having in it! Be sure to check out all of the other fun submissions over at I heart faces! I am sure they will all be tons of fun!

I Heart Faces | May Flowers {Sacramento Photographer}

I just couldn't resist this weeks fun challenge over at I heart faces! I just love photographing flowers and they are in amazing bloom right now! This is one of my favorites. I hope you enjoy! Have a great week!

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I Heart Faces | Wind {Sacramento Family Photographer}

This is a fun week over at I Heart Faces. The challenge is wind! I thought immediately back to my session the lovely L Family.  We had such an entertaining session (in so many ways!), not the least of which was the wind that would kick up from time to time in our little urban location. I went back through the images and found this doozy to share. Ah, the wind. Sometimes, it can just cause us to smile.. after it has first rubbed our nerves a bit!

Head on over to I heart faces for the rest of the entries..they are bound to be beautiful and fun!

I Heart Faces - Fix it Friday #87

Just checking for another I Heart Faces Fix-it Friday! This image was shot by Andrea Riley (see the SOOC image below). Above is my edit. I cropped it, gave it a little levels and curves love, did a color balance layer adjustment to get some of the red out, then ran a Florabella bw action, adjusted the layers, lightened in areas that needed it and sharpened. Voila! I love these type of beautiful images, especially when it's dad and baby. Just something about big strong dads getting to hold their precious little one and really focusing on them in this way. Just melts my heart, I tell ya!

There are many other fun edits that will make your heart swoon over at I heart faces!

I Heart Faces - Red ! Happy Valentine's Day!

Happy Valentine's Day! How appropriate for the challenge over at I Heart Faces to be red today! I do have some Valentine photos to share with you, but I couldn't resist posting this one. You may recognize these darling twins from last July, when they were just 6 weeks old. I love love love that I captured this shot of them and cannot wait to see how their relationship unfolds! You can't help but wonder if it will be exactly like the image...one a darling little fun-loving and maybe mischievous girl and the other a more subdued, easy-going sweetie. Who knows..and that is what is so fun about it! It could even be completely opposite! I hope to see them again soon to find out for myself, but until then, here's some fun red with two darling loving girls atop!

I Heart Faces - Fix it Friday #86

Is this little girl gorgeous or what!? As you may know from my current facebook search, I am currently looking for a red head to participate in a fun photo session! When I saw this come up for Fix-it Friday on I heart faces I just had to play a little. It's the first time I have participated in this and it was fun!

Here is what I did with my edit. I first opened the photo in ACR  and increased the exposure and fill light a bit, using recovery and blacks to bring it to where it looked right to me. I then opened it in CS5  cropped it, and ran Coffee Shop's Powder Room action. I used various layers from the action, adjusting the opacity of each. Included was an eye defining and sharpening, skin softening and a skin lightening layer. I flattened the image and used the patch tool to take out the dark circles under her eyes. I then used another action to whiten the whites of her eyes and take out the red a bit. I also took some of the red out of her skin.  Finally, I used Florabella's Cosmo action and adjusted or deleted various layers.

She is just too cute..and I love the photo, too..such a sweet pose.


Here is the original that I had to work with:

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I Heart Faces - Smile ! Photo Chosen as a Favorite!

*A little update on the challenge...my picture was chosen as favorite by the founders of I Heart Faces. So Fun!

The challenge over at I heart faces this week is "Smile"! As you can imagine, it was very hard to choose one for this. Thousands of beautiful smiling faces and all so adorable. But again, I saw this one and it gave me pause. I took this at my dear friend's daughter's fairy party. This is the beautiful birthday girl and, though her smile is subtle, it speaks volumes about how she feels about her day, her beautiful face art and how she is pleased with who she sees in the mirror. I was so blessed to help capture the day!

I Heart Faces - Best Face Photo 2010 Challenge

This week's challenge over at iheartfaces is faces! Specifically, the best face photos of 2010. Wow, this one was a hard one to choose. Now I know how hard it is for the people who have to judge these challenges. I had many that came to mind from this year, but in the end, I kept coming back to this one. I just love it. For some reason, it just says childhood to me. And it makes me smile. The freckles, the stage of teeth growth, the sweet innocence... I also like the composition. It's not traditional, and I know it may not be some folk's favorite, but I really like it!

I had the blessing and honor of capturing many, many beautiful faces this past year...and it was so fun looking back through them. I'd love to know some of your favorites from my site so feel free to leave a comment and let me know!

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I Heart Faces - Silhouette Challenge

I love silhouettes in photography. There is just something mysterious and intriguing about them.  When I heard the challenge at iheartfaces was silhoette, I was excited to see all the different entries. I had a couple of mine in mind to use, but then I remembered this one and knew I wanted to share it. It's an image of my dear friend's lovely daughter who was helping us scout out a new location (which is now closed for the season :(. Anyhow, when we finally found it, we didn't have much time left, but I did love that we stayed long enough for me to get this one!

Be sure to check out the rest of the entries by clicking the button below. They are sure to invoke some serious mystery!

Beautiful M and a Walk to Remember

On Saturday, I had a fun opportunity to do the "I Heart Faces" Photo Walk with 26 other photographers from my area and some surrounding regions. We had such a fun time hitting some cool spots in Sacramento, chatting about photography, and photographing our beautiful model, Miss M. Here are some of my favorites. 

I Heart Faces - Flowers and Faces Challenge Entry!

This is sweet K enjoying a Smiley Sweet.(http://smileyssweetsandcreations.blogspot.com/). I am entering this photograph in the "I Heart Faces" challenge this week because it fits the theme so beautifully. The theme is "Faces and Flowers". Here you see her beautiful face contemplating her flower topped cupcake. She also has a beautiful flower head bow made by her sweet aunt, and flowers on her shirt. Isn't she precious?! Be sure to head on over to I Heart Faces to see more beautiful entries :)