Self Portrait

Today I decided to give self portraits a try, since it's not something I do on a regular basis. On a scale of 1 to 10 on how hard it was, I'll give it a 7, mainly because I kept missing the self-timer and I didn't have a tripod, so I had to use a stack of books constantly.

Nevertheless, I thought I had a relatively good picture, until I loaded it on my computer and realized that I had the white balance messed up, and it made my face look blotchy and extremely shiny. I managed to fix it after about 15 minutes of editing (probably the most I've ever spent on a picture), and now it looks relatively good.

I didn't really do much to myself before I took the picture. The only thing I did was curl one side of my hair and add mascara; it's a very natural shot, in my opinion. Other than fixing the blotchy-ness of my face, I didn't really do much to the picture, other than change the contrast and the color a bit.

Six More...

My personal favorites are the third and fifth one. :)

Updates

First of all, I'm starting to get all of the pictures that I took on my camera while we were in Pennsylvania on my computer and edited. They are turning out great since I've learned how to use my "photoshop" better. (I don't use Photoshop; I use this program called Photofiltre. It's the French version of Photoshop in English, and it works just as well and it's free.) Right now I'm working on the third picture, but I decided to take a break and update the blog.

Next, I got a new DeviantART. The name is really very simple, and it's a lot easier to remember than kailaathatssmee. You can now find me here. I'll no longer be updating the old one with anything else, besides a message saying that I moved. I decided to move after I couldn't make the watermark on the pictures smaller without changing the name. ;]

I also have my HotMail account for MSN set up as the "official" photography e-mail. The Yahoo account that I have now is getting flooded with (mainly) spam, colorguard information, Delia's sales information, colleges in South Africa that would like me to go to school there, and just a ton of stuff. This way, it'll be easier for me to have a seperate e-mail for photography, rather than trying to control the mass quantities of things coming through my Yahoo account. The e-mail is: kaila_x3@hotmail.com.

I should have all the pictures on the new DeviantART by either late tonight or tomorrow.

New, Updated Pictures

Coming Soon...

Preferably Monday night, I'll have all the pictures from the Pennsylvania trip on my computer and ready to be edited. The editing process for these pictures will take a bit, since there are so many, and the lighting wasn't something I could control and therefore it was a little dark in some of the pictures.

Hopefully, by the end of next week, I should have all of the pictures edited and upload onto Flickr, DeviantART and the blog!

Lillies Are My Favorite

I really hate the watermark, but I don't have the software in Pennsylvania to edit the actual pictures and add my watermark myself. Therefore, it'll be four or five (maybe six) days until I have all the pictures that I've taken in the past two weeks edited and watermarked and everything.

Fireworks

Here are some pictures from the July 3rd fireworks in Pennsylvania. There were a lot of clouds and those conditions weren't too great for the fireworks. Hopefully, next year the conditions will be better and therefore the pictures will be better.

The watermark is an inconvience, I know, but once I get back home, I'll edit the pictures and add my own signature to them and the pictures will be clearer.

I also want to wish my mommy a happy birthday!