…I need to go to the “How to Edit Your Pictures and Make Them 10x Better” session at BlogHer:
I am so rarely IN pictures. Unless my Dad is around, no one ever thinks, Kate looks lovely today, we should really capture this moment digitally (I almost typed “on film”…days of yore…) OR if I demand that someone get a picture RIGHT NOW (like HERE).
No – I’m typically the one behind the camera. BUT every once in a while, we’ll be with friends or family and someone will actually take some candids or group shots with (gasp!) me in them.
I just looked through the pictures my mother in law took while we were on vacation in CA and found a handful of UNPRECEDENTED candids devoted to me interacting with my children.
But the lighting wasn’t very good:
And I think this one could use a little reduction magic in the nose department…
An photo editing class at BlogHer sounds like just what I need. My own point and shoot photos, as well as the ones I receive from friends and family are often “perfect if only…”
You just never know when you might need Photoshop expertise to make your own bathing suit pictures look more like this:
Yes – that’s my unedited sister in law. I’m think I’m going to start telling people I’m “the funny one.” Any other suggestions? In the meantime, I’ll look forward to getting some handy photo editing advice from my friends Pauline and Amy.
I basically turn into a phantom when anyone pulls a camera out. My poor children are going to have to rely on their memories to pass on tales of me one day to their children because there will be no photographic evidence I ever existed at the rate I'm going!
I'm very rarely in photos too. I actually made sure that my husband took some pics of me w/kids this summer because they might grow up believing I was absent. Ha.
Anyone looking at last year's Disney World pictures would think my husband and mother took my kids. Mostly HRH, since Gremlin opts to close his eyes or cover his face whenever the camera is out.
These are cute pics. If I was going to BlogHer I'd be right there with you at the photo editing session.
My husband shoots pics of me with the kids all the time, but I end up deleting them because I think I look terrible. Ugh.
Oh good, I'm attending that one too. And those pics of all of you are darling!
I was going to say something extremely profound yet funny but I can't get past the fact that my word verification says I should "drown".
I am in awe of anyone who can confidently wear a bikini after having children.
There aren't any pictures of me with the kids either. I am usually the one taking all the photos.