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).
Another day at the beach. My favorite place to be. Holly decided we would get out of bed at 5 this morning. So I took the extra wee hours we were up to paint this image from yesterday.
I really should do this every week. On my way to soccer practice last night I took out my idea journal and sketched this out (nope, not gonna show you my terrible stick figure sketches). When we got there Isaac went one way to practice and we went on the other side of the parking lot to take a few shots. I spent this morning mashing it all up just the way I wanted it. Sometimes I get an image in my head and I just can't rest until I have created it. There is an image haunting me now, but until I can get someone to wear clown makeup just the way I see it in my head I will continue to be haunted.
I took this image last summer. And thought it would be fun to play with. I have a few new tricks and toys. I love the original just the way it is. But wanted to play with a nice picture today.
Here is my play. All for the fun of it! 
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!!
I love shooting for me. I don't do it nearly enough. I also love mashing images up like this one. No we didn't really put the baby in the water like that, I'm not completely crazy.
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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