I used bold in the title cause I’m beaming with excitement and feel like shouting! Hope you like it! Isn’t the music nice? Check out all the new galleries on top of the pictures in wedding and family! I’ve been blessed with work and I can’t wait for what 2008 holds!
Noemi
Isn’t it great that Christmas vacation kinda starts tomorrow? Remember when you were in school and you got a couple of weeks off to celebrate Christmas and New Year’s? I loved those days. It can feel like we get ripped off as adults sometimes but, not this year! Four days in a row! (Well, sorry for the people who still have to work Christmas Eve…but, really how much will you work on Christmas Eve? We all know it’s all about the cookies, chocolate and office parties!)
My advice for everyone…take what ever time you’re given, sit down, breathe, smile, soak it in and delight in everything you’ve been given (even before you open your presents). Christmas is a special time of year. I pray yours is filled with love, friends and family!
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I’m amazed at the overwhelming response to the contest! It was fun to see everyone pick their fav’s and write their kind words!
OKAY! So, I was going to pick the top five but we had a three way tie for fifth place so I’m including all of them in the final round! Here’s your role as judge:
-Pick the picture you like the best!
-AND the picture that captures the season!
I’ve taken all the pictures into Lightroom and made some changes to the originals. So this has become a photo contest/slash photography learning session.
1. Rachel Greenhouse (Original Photo)
I took this image into Lightroom and added contrast, boosted the red, got rid of some of the haze. It’s good to have a little white and black in your image to help make it “pop!”
2. Cheri Patton (Original Photo)
I didn’t do a ton to this picture but, I did add some fill light so that we could see the whole face of the baby. I also moved the exposure up a bit to lighten the whole picture.
3. Holly Gantenbein (Original Photo)
I really liked the above picture and didn’t really want to mess with it but, just for fun a desaturated the colors a little and added contrast. I thought it gave it a mystical look!
4. Becky Van Hofwegen (Original Photo)
I cropped out the yellow light in the background to enhance the black night and keep the focus on the kids. I punched the colors and added more warm tones too.
5. April Sauers (Original Photo)
I wanted to make this a winter wonderland shot! So, I lightened the whole picture, got rid of the distracting black on the top (she’s now surrounded in white) and desaturated the color.
6. Jodi Keller (Original Photo)
Sometimes you can have too much happening in a picture so, I cropped it to focus in on the featured moment. Tip: It’s important when cropping to keep the hands and feet in the shot.
7. Kacy Johanson (Original Photo)
I didn’t do much to this image…I like it too much as is. Normally I’m totally against flash but it made a cool affect with the snow flakes. I lighten the image a little so you can see more detail.
OKAY! Now that these images have been changed a little we’re going to vote again! Comment on the changes, the reason you like your choice the best, why it fits the criteria or anything else! We’ll vote for two days…so we’ll close out on Saturday at midnight!
This is going to make a great extra Christmas gift for one of our finalists!
Happy Voting!
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For those of you who are new to the NoemiPhotography blog family I want to personally welcome you! I’ve had this website for just over a year and in website terms that ancient! I’m ready to update everything: new look, new pictures, new galleries but, same ol’ me!
I’m so excited to show you my website! I’ve been working on it for the last couple of months and my favorite part is that I’ll get to make changes to images throughout the year! We’re going to make it “go live” hopefully by the end of the week. Please don’t be discouraged if all the links aren’t working right the first few days…we’re going to need time to work out the kinks!
I’d love to hear your feed back (positive and constructive) cause I’m new to the creating your own website and I want it to be perfect! Let me know what you think.
Thanks for reading…it’s so fun to have a blog!
P.S. I’m still working on the finalists pictures. I’ll release them tomorrow.
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I just laid my daughter down for her afternoon nap/quiet time/play in a dark room in your bed and make tons of noise for an hour and a half…it’s different every day! And I poured myself a cup of tea (cause I’m still Canadian at heart and tea warms my soul.)It’s a Tim Horton’s mug and anyone who’s been to Canada knows Tim Horton’s is the best coffee/tea place around AND it’s on every corner, sometimes twice on the same corner 
Hmmm…thinking about Christmas…it’s the little things I do in this season: listening to Christmas music, looking through my photo albums, walking through snow, seeing my breath in the air, looking at stockings hung, being quiet and watching the lights blink back at me from our tree, smelling pumpkin candle burning, reading cards, opening packages and putting gifts under the tree…everything leads up to a very special day and reminds me of family and home. I guess it’s the feeling of being loved.
I’ve tried to combine Matt’s traditions, my traditions and new family traditions we like to make Christmas ours. You know? I’m growing into an adult but, still wanting to be taken care of like when I was a kid. Christmas lets me do that. Am I weird? probably.
I guess I’m feeling reflective today. Must be all those Christmas/winter pictures you sent. They got me thinking! Thanks. Remember the voting ends tonight!
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