Laurel Housden Photography Blog

Here are pictures of my adorable little 5 year old boy. He is the biggest HAM of them all. We have been home this week on Spring Break and as you can imagine - it can get pretty boring after the first day. The other day I was hard at work on my computer (not really work…editing pictures) and Aidan kept on running in to my closet and running back out. He did this about 5 times over a span of 30 minutes. O.K….all was calm so I’m wasin’t the least bit concerned. Until I found out what he was doing in my closet. As I peaked out to check on the kid-lings I poked my head inside my 10 year old daughter’s room to find her giving her little brother a complete make over, including nails, toes, and face. It wasin’t bad enough that she was putting makeup on my son - but - she made him PAY for it. He was getting coins from my closet! I was literally standing in the doorway with my mouth hung open ready to catch flies when this cutie of a boy looked up at me and said, “Mommy, look at my makeup it only cost me 50 cents!” “My toes only cost 75 more cents!” I seized the moment and remembered a chapter in Scott Kelby’s Digital Photography Book about getting great light from a  North facing window.  Here are some pictures captured using the D300 and my North Window…and a beautiful model!

I have been testing the Lightroom 2.0 Beta and this is my first series using the new program. All of the edits were performed in Lightroom (except the textured picture of Aidan). I especially love  that you can now sharpen on export with three levels of sharpness (low, medium, and high) as well as the abilty to choose either glossy, matte, or screen as your final output.

 If you like the Black and White pictures above of Aidan, I have created a Lightroom Preset for this effect that you can download here: bw-with-sepia.zip - Let me know what you think. If you don’t know how to import Lightroom Presets into the Develop Module check out Matt Kloskowski’s Lightroom Killer Tips Blog and a video on how to import presets here.