I put this little beauty together after Camille's first birthday party. Almost all the elements were photographed at the party, with the exception of a few elements. Her family did such a great job putting this party together for her. And I had fun mashing it all up into one picture.
She loves all animals. More than she loves animals, she loves feeding them. So when I got a shot of her sitting like this, it was only right I turn it into something like this.
I took just over 100 pictures of her. Following her around while she played. She loves when I take pictures of her. If I put the camera down she says hey mom, take a picture.
When I took this one, she was sitting in the trampoline pushing a pine needle through the safety net. As soon as I saw it in all the images I loaded, I knew she had to be feeding some animal.
Here is the before.
You can find the background here: https://www.etsy.com/shop/LisaBlevinsFineArt?ref=l2-shopheader-name#items
I used 3 images to make this composite. I took the shot of the baby turtle sometime last summer. The acorn cap Holly is sitting in I took last fall. And the image of Holly, just a few weeks ago.
I still feel like this one isn't finished. So don't be surprised if you see this one again only a little different. I asked my daughter Marlee if she had any ideas. She said put a hat on it. LOL that is her answer to everything!
Because sometimes it's just fun to play. Do you love seeing these as much as I love making them? I sure hope so because you will be seeing a lot of this showing up here. It is the "Fairy Godmother Collection". Interested in a session for your child, grandchild, or even yourself? Maybe you would just want to buy a print. Scheduling for these sessions and print sales will start next year. Subscribe to be the first to know when I release more info.
Winter wonder
This is an older picture of Holly at the park in the spring. There was no snow that day. The reindeer I bought at Photographers Unleashed. A great resource for overlays and other fun things to add to a composite.
The best kind of glitter is digital glitter. Because after I craft something with it, it's not all over my house and in my ears. And it goes exactly where I want it too, and STAYS there!! Can I get an Amen!!!
Do you ever get so excited to share something that you post right away, then later wish you would have waited a bit because you thought of something better to share just moments after? No? Ok it's just me then.
I posted the gator fishing picture the other day with the layered file still open in photoshop. When I opened photoshop later the pictures was still there and I thought hmmm what if I...
So I changed it a bit. Then waited a few days to post in case it happened again. And all is good. This is the final edit. For real.
Would you like to be in a picture like this? Stay tuned I will be posting details on these types of sessions. And I'm thinking maybe a contest you could win a shoot, or a print, or something else. Let me know what you would like to win.
Because I love to create. I have a huge list of more things like this I want to do. I am going to be playing Photoshop Fairy Godmother. Asking children and adults who or what they want to be, and making it happen. I want to try to do a mermaid, maybe Cinderella (just because I love to play with sparkles).
Oh how I love to composite! I could do this kind of work all day everyday. Where the only limit is my imagination. Let me tell you how these images came to be. I am in a couple of composite groups on Facebook. A member in one of those groups posted a link to a site that had a composite contest (www.paintcandy.org). I haven't done a composite in a while and needed to practice. So I worked on this first image for a day, making sure to follow all the rules (it was the last day of the contest) and submitted in time.
The contest ended up not being a contest that week after all, and that's ok. I wasn't in it for any prize or anything. It was fun and I got to practice some Photoshop skills. I learned that there are a few tricks I have forgotten how to do because I haven't used them in a while. This image was last weeks submission. I thought it would be interesting to put a pregnant woman (A.K.A. my best friend and one of my favorite models Shannon) in a bottle, in a storm.
Bottle by KarahRobinson-Art at deviantart. Ship by fuguestock at deviant art.
For the image this week I decided to use my other favorite model. 🙂 My little fairy baby is just a cuteness overload.
Dragonfly found at http://www.deviantart.com/
Can't wait to see what next weeks theme is!!
For my own entertainment I have started sketching ideas for some things I wanted to shoot. I have done a few of them. And I am really surprised at how close my final images are to my original sketches. It's so much fun. I just have to share. Can you tell me what this image says to you? If you can read in this image what I am trying to express I might get brave enough to show you my stick figure sketch. LOL that would be for your entertainment, they are awful! I will also share more sketch and final product posts.
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