| Photo Shoot | 5/19/2012 5:05 PM | Shelley, Idaho | 2.8 | 1/15 | Sony with manual settings |
| Close Up | 5/19/2012 5:00 PM | Shelley, Idaho | 3.2 | 1/15 | Sony with manual settings |
| Strike a Pose | 5/19/2012 5:06 PM | Shelley, Idaho | 2.7 | 1/10 | Sony with manual settings |
| Dinner Time | 5/20/2012 12:37 PM | Shelley, Idaho | 2.8 | 1/30 | Sony with manual settings |
For the photo shoot one I cropped my wife a little for a better composition and then I created a new layer and added a blur to it. I then added a mask and brought more focus to my wife.
For the close up I used my wife again because we were going out so it was the perfect chance for some photos, we looked nice and all. I did the same as above but I added another layer and sharpened her eyes a little to bring the focus more on her eyes. She has really blue eyes so I took advantage of that and made them the focus. I also played with a levels adjustment.
For the strike a pose I told her to just be silly and she was while I was just snapping some pics. I did the same as the above two because I didn’t want the background to be more compelling than her.
For the dinner time I was able to snap a couple pics without my mother in law looking because if she knew I took pics of her they wouldn’t be up here haha. She does not like pictures but I got her and my wife in their element, making dinner haha but I placed a blur on all of it and then brought out them and whatever they were focusing on doing at that moment.
Overall portraits are not my specialty I am not great at them as you can see, but I did learn a lot. I hope to be able to work on my portrait skills. I am not much of a picture guy as it is, I hate when people take my picture so me taking pictures of others is still weird for me, let alone them probably.