A touch of vintage

A few snaps of our first time at the beach for this years Spring/Summer season. Blog post found here.

 

moments in the park

At a friends baby shower @ the park. (Blog post here) - May 2011.

my main boy

Just a few snaps of my little man that I took last night, before bed time.

I edited these photos through Gimp. I'm just trying and playing around with editing features as I never really 'edit' when I do, I usually just 'enhance' photos more than anything else. 

I've also just started formatting my photos to being 'RAW' rather than 'JPG' and I've found that before editing them on Gimp, it's a lot easier and faster to enhance and do a little edit before opening on the actual program.

Oh, and I've made a new watermark. I quite like it.. it took me ages to perfect. Though I only included my two main blogs on it. But both blogs have links to link back to this blog anyway. 

(the first photo was the first attempt to my waterwark, then I added our last names in all the other photos).

delish

Here are some photos I've taken of food that I've banqueted in the past two months (December-January).
All have been edited through Picasa.

Dinner at Enthaicement, Liverpool. - Satay Chicken (6 Dec. 10)

Original: 1/125s - f/4.8 - ISO: 3200
added 'warmify'

Japanese lunch at Ajisen-Ramen in Chinatown, Sydney. (8 Dec. 10)

Original: 1/25s - f5.3 - ISO: 1600
changed 'tuning'

Original: 1/20s - f/4.8 - ISO: 1600
changed 'tuning'

Lunch at Pho Pasteur, Blacktown Westpoint for my mothers birthday. (13 Dec. 10)

Original: 1/320s - f/5.0 - ISO:800
changed 'tuning'

Original: 1/640s - f/4.8 - ISO: 800
added 'glow' 

Original: 1/400s - f/3.8 - ISO: 800
changed 'tuning'  

Original: 1/125s - f/5.0 - ISO: 800
changed 'tuning'

Lunch at Ribs 'n' Rumps, Sydney Olympic Park. (17 Dec. 10)

Original: 1/80s - f/3.8 - ISO: 800

My home-made Vanilla Lattice Slices as a Christmas Dessert (25 Dec. 10)

Original: 1/125s - f/4.8 - ISO: Auto

My sister-in-law's home made CS Cowboy shots and shot roulette, for New Years Eve 2010.

Original: 1/60s - f/5.0 - ISO:200 w/ flash on

Original: 1/13s - f/5.3 - ISO: 200 w/ flash on
changed 'tuning'

My home made Banana Loaf w/ Strawberry & Vanilla ice-cream. (16 Jan 11)

Original: 1/40s - f/5.0 - ISO: 3200
added 'glow'

Deewhy Beach

Here are a couple of shots I took while I was at Deewhy Beach with my boyfriend and cousins (pictured below).

I just had to take photos of the scenery, especially with a weather that was delivered to us that day! It was such a perfect day, especially to take photos with the great natural lighting it gave!

With the second last image, I wanted to edit a photo where it gave that 'vintage' look. I like how it turned out because the colours are still come out very strongly.

The second last image was a view I absolutely loved! I really don't know 'why' I loved it so much, I just loved how it looked through my eyes and no words could really describe it, it was just so beautiful to me. I decided to edit it, to give it more of a colour boost and to emphasis its colours. The original just didn't do justice to its natural beauty and meaning it gave me.

Original(s): 1/1000s - f/5.3 - ISO: 200

Edited via Picasa - changed 'tuning' and added 'noise'

Edited via Picasa - changed 'tuning' & added 'glow'

Edited via Picasa - changed 'tuning'

an all time favourite.

Original: 1/1250 - f/3.5 - ISO: 200

I took this for no particular reason but out of curiosity of how it would turn out in August 2010. And this has always been one of my favourite photos that I've shot! I absolutely love it!

To me, it gives that modern-vintage look that I really like.

Edited via Picnik - added 'Lomo-ish' feature.