Photos by Robin » friends http://www.photosbyrobin.com/blog Blog Sat, 04 Feb 2012 21:46:04 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1.4 Claire & friends – animated gif | Minneapolis Studio Photographer http://www.photosbyrobin.com/blog/claire-friends-animated-gif-minneapolis-studio-photographer/ http://www.photosbyrobin.com/blog/claire-friends-animated-gif-minneapolis-studio-photographer/#comments Sat, 02 Apr 2011 00:25:58 +0000 Robin http://www.photosbyrobin.com/blog/?p=4989 Photobucket

Photobucket

having a little fun last Friday night. To make your own, follow these steps in Photoshop:

1) open each pic you want to use and resize to 600 pixels on the long side, 72dpi (make sure to size to 72dpi first, then size 600 pixels on the long side)
2) put each photo in it’s own layer – all on top of the first image you want to use.
3) click on “window”, “animation” – you may need to click on the icon on the far right to get to frame animation.
4) turn OFF the “eye” on all the layers.
5) click ON the “eye” on the first layer you want to use.
6) on the animation strip, click the little icon to the left of the garbage can to get a NEW FRAME
7) click on the “eye” on the next layer you want to use.
repeat steps 6&7 until all your photos are in there.
9) save your project as a .psd before you lose it!
10) highlight ALL layers in the animation strip and highlight all your photo layers (ctrl-shift each photo frame)
11) file – save for web & devices – save – save as type = images only.  This will be your final .gif file.
12) log into photobucket, upload. Put the html code or image code on your blog, facebook, website, whatever.

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who:  my friend and fellow photographer Jennie and her cute little family!

when:  september 27, 2010

where:  brooklyn park

what:  finally getting around to posting some of these.  I added a gradient map to the blown out sky….hmmm….still experimenting w/ that.  Fun stuff!

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Who:  my awesome neighbor, fellow photographer & good friend Nichole and her little man.

When:  Friday 1/21/11

Where:  Quincy Studio & NE Mnpls

What:  Nichole got a sassy new hairdo so we went down to the studio to show her around & take a few head shots.  Of course I had to get some of adorable Karge too!  He is THE sweetest little boy!  I said I wanted to hang around him all the time – he cracks me up!  :-)

]]> http://www.photosbyrobin.com/blog/nichole-little-man-minneapolis-natural-light-photographer/feed/ 2 Great weekend! http://www.photosbyrobin.com/blog/great-weekend/ http://www.photosbyrobin.com/blog/great-weekend/#comments Mon, 16 Aug 2010 14:42:36 +0000 Robin http://www.photosbyrobin.com/blog/?p=2609 Well we had a great weekend!  The weather was gorgeous – wow!  Can’t complain for sure!  Thanks for all the nice birthday wishes!  :-) I had a very fun & relaxing day! (…well, besides getting hit HARD in the arm by a whiffle ball during our back yard neighborhood game last night!) 

Got some editing done that I’ve been putting off  (and would you hate me if I said I got my Christmas card done?  haha!  just need the photos to drop in there now! yeah!!) 

Last week after it rained so hard, I took Buddy out to go to the bathroom and spotted this salamander in the yard – YUK!  I went back in the house and told the fam and Claire went running out to find it!  haha!  That’s my girly girl!! (……….NOT!)  ;-)   {btw….I spent some time on www.designerdigitals.com and downloaded some AWESOME freebies!  Everything here is from there except the frames are www.twopeasinabucket.com – Rhonna’s Photo Phun and part of the Fortune Teller kit.  font is beer dip.Then Friday night we went to dinner at  Psycho Suzi’s with my good friend Shelley and her husband Todd.  We actually started out meeting up at the studio that we’ll be sharing starting in September….I wanted Scott to see it!  So we decided to be a little adventuresome and try a place neither one of us had ever been to.  Plus it was really close to the studio so bonus!  It was super fun!  I’d highly recommend it! 

(btw….used one of Heather Ann’s quick fill kits here and some paper from the Two If By Sea kit.  fonts are AL postmaster and I can’t remember the other one).  {we both promised NOT to bring our big cameras cuz we didn’t want the guys getting all mad at us….so I only had my crappy point & shoot and Scott’s i-phone – haha!}

After Psycho Suzi’s, we dropped by my friend Jennie’s house to hang out with her and her hubby Rob!  Good times!  They are very funny & entertaining!

Saturday my parents were in town so we went to Chili’s to celebrate both my brother Jon’s b-day (8/6) and mine too.  I forgot my camera – darn!  But here’s Jon from when we took him out to Macaroni Grill for his b-day.  For my birthday, I took advantage of a couple of great FREE birthday coupon deals!  haha!  We went to Old Country Buffet for brunch (actually LUNCH since we went to church and didn’t get there until 11am - most of the breakfast stuff was GONE so bummer! ), then I got my FREE Caribou drink (I don’t drink coffee so I got  a yummy smoothie!)  For dinner, got a free burger from Ruby Tuesdays – got “Ruby Tue Go” so brought home burgers for all of us (well, except Claire who doesn’t eat hamburger…)  Then took the dog for a walk and came home to 1/2 of the neighborhood kids in our back yard playing whiffle ball!

Scott made my FAVORITE cake – cherry chip w/ cherry frosting!  And he also bought me some beautiful flowers!  :-)     That’s all!  Took today off so now it’s time to get my butt off here and go do something fun with the kids!  :-)

]]> http://www.photosbyrobin.com/blog/great-weekend/feed/ 1 4th of July 2010! http://www.photosbyrobin.com/blog/4th-of-july-2010/ http://www.photosbyrobin.com/blog/4th-of-july-2010/#comments Mon, 05 Jul 2010 02:53:17 +0000 Robin http://www.photosbyrobin.com/blog/?p=2205 We celebrated the 4th a day early this year, so today totally didn’t feel like a holiday!  haha!  Here’s the kids getting into the holiday spirit! (used Sheye’s “Ruby shoes” action here) Our neighbor Laurie brought over these beautiful flowers!  She’s always SO thoughtful – thank you Laurie! We hosted our neighborhood party this year and boy, did we ever have a great turn out!  Some of the neighbors started out with a friendly softball game (despite the high humidity and 90 degree heat!)  The kids alternated playing wiffle ball, doing the bean bag toss, shooting waterguns, and blowing bubbles!  Once it got dark, we practiced trying to write names with sparklers!  haha!  Of course we shot off a few fireworks too but I didn’t get any good ones of those.  oh well!  (p.s. the blue one is actually a little flashlight thing that came with some glow-in-the-dark Easter eggs that Claire hid in the back yard) Here’s a quick layout I did with Heather Ann’s awesome products!  I used the “America the Beautiful“, “Great American Holiday” and “Stars and Stripes” kits – as well as the Quick Fill layout #58.  (fireworks photo was actually taken in 2006… ;-) )   Thanks to all our friends and neighbors that made it to the party!  We had a great time hosting!  :-)

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btw…for the photogs out there – here are my settings for this photo – keep in mind I was using a reflector (white side) –  Nikon D700, 24-70mm f/2.8 lens, f-stop = 3.5, shutter = 1/1250, ISO = 400, pattern metering, auto white balance – and I shoot in manual/jpeg.   Taken around 7:30pm last night.   Here I used Pioneer Woman’s soft & faded, then ctrl-alt-u and + lightness +14, then put a sepia layer on top at blending mode of soft light. The hill – closer to sunset rather than sunrise.  :-) {ok, I have to say it – she is GORGEOUS!!} Used Sheye’s “honeychild”, then “ruby shoes” and “softly” here. This one little butterfly kept landing on Jacob & I as we were taking Elle’s photos!  It was the coolest thing!  I was trying to hand it to Elle – and just for a split second, it landed on her and I got the shot!  :-)    Here’s to new friendship.  :-)

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