this is how i shoot
I don’t know about you, but I love to look at other people’s crafting rooms and how they take photos of their creations. I’m still a total amateur photographer who likes to shoot in Auto mode. But, Lisa Spangler’s recent blog post (Tutorial: Photo backgrounds for crafty projects!) made me wanna share how I do mine. I still have sooo much to learn and improve my photo skill!
Above photo is my main crafting area.
I use my husband’s camera, Canon EOS 30D with EFS 17-55mm lense. Normally, I take my photos at night. For tutorials, I just turn two desk lamps. And to take the final project, I turn my flash on (Canon Speedlite 430EX. Yeah, camera is my hubby’s but the flash is mine =). I know everybody tells you to turn the flash off, but I like it on. I don’t like the built-in flash light as I can’t control the direction.
Last year, I made my husband install this cork bulletin board right in front of my desk. I wanted to use it to put stuff like sketch or note for me to reference to while I craft. He does a lot of handy man work for me not because he values my crafting skill, but because I complain about his parents. Bigger the complain, bigger the return. Poor guy~ heehee. He would still do things for me regardless of my complaints, but things just get done faster if I let him know how wonderful his wife is who would put up with his parents. Yeah…
I used to cover up the wall to shoot projects, but I got to like the corky background look on the photo.
If I don’t feel lazy, I put patterned papers on the bottom.
I made this panda and friends cake last summer.
Sometimes I like the plain white surface even when I don’t feel lazy.
I made this cash envelope clutch for theHybridChick blog tutorial. It’s little bit different from the IOU clutch that I made last month.
Almost always I edit my photos on Adobe Lightroom 2 and Photoshop CS3.
Few places I learn about photography.
Sideoats + Scribbles
Pioneer Woman
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number of view: 124Playing Tennis
More I take photos of kids, more I think of taking photographs as playing tennis. I always loved the thought of playing tennis but never liked to play. I mean, I did not like to run toward the ball. It bounced too quickly and I was supposed to run after it? No way! I would just hold my racquet and pretended that I was participating in the game. Hoping the whole time that the ball would land right in front of me so I would not have to move much. And most of the time, it landed on my side of the court and flew away even before my brain signaled me to go after it.
Well, kids move very fast. And my kids move lightening fast. It’s not an easy task to take photos of my kids. In the beginning, I was hoping they would pose for me when I was ready to push the camera button. But, nope, that didn’t happen. I realized that I had to run after them before they moved (if it’s even possible).
Last Wednesday, I took my kids to a local park hoping to get some good, loving brother and sister smiling at their not-so patient mother, playing happily together photos. But, nope, that didn’t happen. I had to constantly ask my son (4.5 yrs old) to hold his sister’s hand (1.5 yrs old) or to stay with her, but she didn’t cooperate. She had a different agenda. She wanted to run, run, run away from everybody.
I wanted to put Kyle into an army print(?) pants while his hair was still very short like a soldier (My husband ordered(?) me not to cut his hair too short ever again.) Well, he looks more like a little Buddhist monk with the short hair than a G.I. Joe. =)
Most of the photos were edited with watercolor effect in Photoshop with the technique I learned from here. I got the helpful info from Stef’s blog.
Digital kit: Dreamy by Bohemian Art from ScrapArtist.com
number of view: 36Mommy Needs to Relax~
I first saw this pop-up card technique on a Stampin’ Up! publication, and then on the SplitCoastStampers.com. I wanted to make one, but didn’t know which stamp to use. Then, I saw one of my favorite stamp company, Elzybells’ challenge, to create a card that includes the colors of my country’s flag.
Well, I’m a Korean-American, so I decided to use the colors from both flags, heehee. Korean flag has Red, Blue, White, and Black.
Stamps: Elzybelles “Rubbadubdub”, “Post Stamp Robin”.
The girl in the tub stamp gave me the idea to make the pop-up card.
Ackkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkk~~~~!!!!!!! Her arm is not connected! It was 2 am when I was working on this, and I forgot to put bubbles over to disguise what’s not there. Poor girl~.
It was my first time using Marvy Uchida Liquid Applique, and didnt’ know how it would turn out. I put Smoochi on top when the Liquid Applique dried a little bit, but the Smoochi never did. I was supposed to wait over night for the Liquid Applique to dry, but I don’t have that kind of patience. So, I messed up the bubbles with my finger prints. Poor girl~.
Is this a window? Or a picture frame? Haven’t decided it yet. =) Doesn’t show on the photo, but I put clear sheet on it.
Heehee, handmade langerie. “I” drew the panty myself! *gasp*
Connected two pins to create the towel bar. I cut the towel from my baby’s wash cloth. Stamped the “relax” image using the Palette ink, and colored with Copic.
Urmmm… I wasn’t planning on using the red potty, but I remembered that I had two sheets of baby potty training stickers by Jolee’s, and since it was in red, I decided to use it. Heehee.
Originally, I wanted to stamp bubbles and use the sentiment, “May all your troubles drift away like tiny bubbles” since this sentence was what made me buy the stamp set. But, I thought “Take some time for you” fit better with the potty and the mommy relaxing with her disconnected arm =)
Too fat to fold down flat =)
Happy Independence Day!
Cherry Blossoms in Washington, DC 2009
We went down to DC to see the cherry blossoms this past Saturday. It was very windy day, and crowded, of course. We didn’t even get to see the Tidal Basin, but glad we went. My husband snapped some good photos of our kids, so I was happy.
Digital kit: Digital-Crea.fr
It’s Spring!
Finally, it’s here. The first flower bloom in our front yard, yay! Kyle noticed the bud, and I thought it was weed, hehe. Turned out, my husband and Kyle planted this last fall. I took this photo last Thursday, was lazy posting it to the blog, heehee.
Snow in March! Eh?
We had snow yesterday. I haven’t seen this much snow in this area for a long time. Kyle loved it and Bailey enjoyed it as well.
Digi kits; Lili Designs from After Five Designs (Circle overlay); Nina Scraps from Oscraps.com(Paper, string); Nanine (photomask); Katie Pertiet from DesingerDigital (GrungyLedgerGrids/ Postmarks date); DanielleD from ScrapArtist.com(Shades of Grey)
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