The Wild Bunch

I was trying so hard to get a serene and peaceful Fall photo of my kids, with leaves gently floating around them. This was as close as I could get! It was still a keeper. I'm also entering this into the Rock the Shot monthly challenge at www.rocktheshotforum.com

The Announcement Shoot

A couple of weeks ago I had the honor of photographing my friend Christine and her beautiful family with a soon to be 4th.

Christine chose Rowe Woods, Cincinnati Nature Center as the setting and it was so beautiful with all the fall colors! The kids were adorable as always. The new addition will be lucky to have such great older brothers and sister, and great parents...of course!

Railway Museum of Greater Cincinnati and a little HDR Fun

Had so much fun going to the Railway Museum of Greater Cincinnati, which by the way, is in Latonia, Kentucky. I went with the camera club I belong to, Misfits With Cameras on June 8, 2013. In the afternoon, it did get kind of warm, especially going inside some of the old trains. In this post I'm just sharing some of the HDR photos I created from what I took that day. In the next post I'll show more inside photos of the vintage cars.

This photograph, was the first one I did in HDR, just for fun

 and I added the sky overlay.

BEFORE

AFTER

I felt like the above photo on the right  needed something more, to make it a little more interesting, plus I absolutely love Photoshop! I love to play with photos, to take them and make something more out of them. The clouds and sunset is an overlay from Jessica Drossin Textures. If you haven't checked out her work yet, I suggest you do. It's amazing.

This is a Pennsylvania Railroad Engine. Did more of a painted look on this one.

 All in all it was a fun and interesting day. The next post will have pics of the inside of the old train cars and they won't be HDR. I just had to have a little fun with them .

Prints will be on sale soon in my Etsy Shop. They are printed on metallic paper which really brings out the color!

Impossible

This was taken last spring, early spring. My neighbor's tree was in full bloom and beautiful. I'm posting this for Kim Klassen's Texture Tuesday for January 29th. She has a lovely blog, you should really check it out. For this Tuesday, the requirement was one layer of last week's texture -43. On this one I used Kim's texture Sweet Tart, blurred and applied as soft light @ 25%,  then I applied -43 in the multiply mode at 50%. After all was said and done, I used Kim's brush, a lovely quote from Elizabeth Barrett Browning.

Dust In The Wind

This photo was taken in March of 2012. I had gone to take photos of a condo for a realtor friend of mine and in the middle of all the condos was a horse farm. So having camera in hand I got out to take pictures and this guy just stopped and stared.
I am entering this into the Rock The Shot Photo Challenge for January, the theme of which is your favorite photo of 2012. My husband really likes this one, so that made it a winner for me!

New love of Waterfalls

Back in October I did a Waterfall Workshop conducted by Bill Fultz of Fultz Photos and Misfits With Cameras. We went to Dayton, to visit various falls. I never knew Dayton, Ohio had sooooo many falls! It was amazing!

Bill gave us great tips on how to shoot the waterfalls and get that silky look that he has on his awesome photos, some of which can be seen here http://www.flickr.com/photos/williamfultz/4671705797/in/set-72157619297373158!

West Milton Falls was the best! When we pulled into a parking lot behind, if I remember correctly, a funeral home, we could immediately hear the Falls! Took some steps down and there they were! The first three photos here are West Milton Falls!

The photo at the bottom, which I think I could have done better on, is directly under an overpass! I wonder how many people drive over it every day and not even realize it's there! I will be in search of more waterfalls to shoot, I have a few to post from
Sharon Woods on a later blog!
Soon the first three photos will
be available in my Etsy Shop or you can
email me at teaschmidphoto@gmail.com

Falls under an over pass in Dayton, Ohio