One thing I love is a good surprise. The kind that puts a smile on my face and makes me feel I’ve wrung a little extra goodness from the day.
I went to upload some images from my camera this afternoon and some unfamiliar thumbnails popped up. They were tiny versions of some photographs I’d taken of Alicia-Rae a bit over a week ago. I must have been in some sort of sleep-deprived daze at the time (yep…attack of the croup again…) because I barely remember taking them. But I’m pretty sure nobody has crept into my house just to photograph my daughter, then snuck out again leaving my camera behind. So it must have been me, I guess.
It was such a treat to see them come to life on my screen – and I actually gasped a little at these first two. I can’t believe how grown up our baby girl looks. She is still a baby, right? Those lips of hers have promtped more than one comment about daddy’s need to find a big stick, to chase all those boys away. I do pity him for the thought of what he’ll be going through in 14 years or so.
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And this shot below brings a smile to my face because of the sweet and innocent look that she’s mastered so well, and knows exactly when to pull it out. Don’t let it fool you though. She’s the polar opposite to Jaedon in that she has a FOUL temper. The great thing is she gets over it in next to no time. Once she’s thrown herself on the floor, and flailed around for a few seconds, to further prove her point, she simply gets up and on with life. Jaedon however takes after me. He very rarely looses his temper, but likes to dwell on his misery and make the most of his bad mood when it hits him.
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And for the technically minded people out there, I’ve recently done a very daring thing and switched back to shooting in JPEG. I found there was very little I could do in ACR that I couldn’t do in Photoshop, exept for recovering blown highlights. This has caused me to re-think the way I shoot a little as I usually push it to the verge of clipping them. I’ve never been one to fuss over ‘hot spots’ though so it shouldn’t change things too much.
Once I got over feeling like someone had nicked off with my security blanket, I actually started to prefer JPEG over RAW, as far as processing goes. I’ll still shoot in RAW, no doubt, as need be, but I’m loving the ease of opening the JPEG files straight up and away we go. If it saves me time it’s gotta be good. After all, I’ve gotta find somewhere to fit my piano lessons in now.
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