Photos by Robin » holiday http://www.photosbyrobin.com/blog Blog Sat, 04 Feb 2012 21:46:04 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1.4 Merry Christmas and Happy New Year! http://www.photosbyrobin.com/blog/merry-christmas-and-happy-new-year/ http://www.photosbyrobin.com/blog/merry-christmas-and-happy-new-year/#comments Mon, 09 Jan 2012 04:33:08 +0000 Robin http://www.photosbyrobin.com/blog/?p=6964 Merry Christmas & Happy New Year! I found a new trick that I’m a little in love with right now – taking photos with my ipod touch and bringing them into the Instagram app to “edit” them. For these, I actually took most of them with my regular camera (Nikon D700), then when I had them up on my computer monitor, I took photos of them with my ipod touch and brought them into the Instagram app – I used “Early Bird” on all of these, then e-mailed them to myself. Slapped into a collage and done.  :-) Problem is, they are very VERY low-res, so they only look good pretty small and in a collage. I wish I knew a way to make them better resolution!  Anyway….

The middle photo though was a pic of our Christmas tree – taken with my current very favorite lens – the 35mm f/1.4G – on manual mode to make the lights blurry like that.  :-)Next we have our New Year’s Eve photos! We were getting ready to go across the street to our friend/neighbor’s house for a party, so I barely had any time to take these. uggh! (Scott rushed me out the door…) But I got what I could. Nikon D300, Tamron 17-55mm f/2.8 lens (at like ap of 16, iso 160, shutter 1/160), Alien Bee ring flash. I brought all these photos into Toy Camera Analog Color with the polaroid border and Process type 5.So yay!  I got the first two pages of our 2012 Memory book done!  :-)

While I was at it, I took some ipod touch photos of some of my fav images I took in 2011 of Jacob & Elle. Used “Nashville” and “Early Bird” filters from Instagram here.And tried something completely new on this image – hmm…not sure what I think, but I know Elle is beautiful no matter how I edit the photo!  :-) Have a great week! I start my 10 days in a row again at work tomorrow…boo hoo! Feel sorry for me?

]]> http://www.photosbyrobin.com/blog/merry-christmas-and-happy-new-year/feed/ 0 Mine. http://www.photosbyrobin.com/blog/mine/ http://www.photosbyrobin.com/blog/mine/#comments Sat, 18 Dec 2010 23:40:37 +0000 Robin http://www.photosbyrobin.com/blog/?p=3922 Here’s our year-in-review book for 2010!   I’m so glad to have this done and crossed off my “to do” list!!  yeah!  I even ordered a set of 3 accordion books for us  and the parents (but not thru Shutterfly, thru somewhere else…)  Can’t wait to see how those turn out!

————–>Here’s the link to our book in the Shutterfly gallery.  OH – and BEST PART YET????  You can buy pre-paid Shutterfly cards at the photo counter at  Target – you get FREE shipping (normally $7.99) and I got to use my discount!  Plus since I put everything on my Target Visa, I also got another 5% off!  SCORE!   Anyway….the cover idea I got from a calendar I saw on this site.

And here is our Christmas card for this year!  Photo credit goes to the amazingly talented Melissa! The rest of the credit for the card is as follows:

  • background paper – HERE-  (recolored from the Bella paper collection)
  • frames & flower artwork – HERE – (from freebies available to members – thanks Katie!  LOVE your site!)
  • live in peace artwork – HERE - Sande Krieger’s Season’s Greetings  (recolored & saturation/opacity changed)
  • fonts:  Renaissance, typewriter & rage (’10)

And here’s Buddy & Amber – NOT too happy to be dressed up for the holidays!  Card template from HERE - the “12 Days of Christmas” collection. I also ordered a 24×36 gallery-wrapped canvas for our front room.  It looks great!  And even though that’s pretty big, it STILL looks small on our wall!  haha!Oh, and I put together a pocket calendar (4×6″) for us & my parents – kit is from HERE.  I am printing them as 4×6 photos, then getting them  spiral bound at the top of the photo (at Office Max). I know I don’t tell my family this enough, but I love and appreciate every one of them!   I couldn’t ask for a nicer family!

Merry Christmas from our family to yours!  :-)

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]]> http://www.photosbyrobin.com/blog/amber-buddy-early-merry-christmas/feed/ 0 4th of July 2009! http://www.photosbyrobin.com/blog/4th-of-july-2009/ http://www.photosbyrobin.com/blog/4th-of-july-2009/#comments Mon, 06 Jul 2009 03:20:00 +0000 Robin http://www.photosbyrobin.com/blog/4th-of-july-2009/ OK so again, I’m a terrible “event” photographer! I just can’t seem to capture the moment since so much is going on! But we had a fun party last night for the 4th! I had to actually work 9-5, so Scott & our neighbor Jon did an awesome job getting everything all set up!(btw…the big background firework photo I actually took back in 2006…didn’t want to set up the tripod & everything last night…and all products used here are Heather Ann’s!)

A bunch of neighbors came over and brought great food to share!Scott’s sis Tammie came too and brought like her #55th cupcake she’s made w/ her ginormous cupcake pan! :-) True & Jake… Our neighbor’s twins Mitchell & Jada…

Annabelle…

and our newest neighbors – Karge, Karge Jr, and Nichole – who also does photography! And some other new neighbors – this is Owen & Kalin.

I never got around to posting these…they got a new puppy a few months ago and this was the first night they brought him home. Cute little Hopps!

Another I never posted….Porter, Owen & Kalin.

And miss Kalin w/ my huge glasses!

Madi…

I hope to put together a slideshow since there were SOOO many more photos…we’ll see. :-)

Hope you all had a great 4th!

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I didn’t really know what to say on some months…so maybe I’ll just delete those? Who knows…!

I modified it to be 4×6, and I plan on printing up some of these to stuff in our cards…and skip writing the letter! ;-) At $.16 each (http://www.ritzpix.com/) – it’s a lot cheaper and a LOT easier!

]]> http://www.photosbyrobin.com/blog/us-2008-in-review/feed/ 0 oh so much going on…!!! http://www.photosbyrobin.com/blog/oh-so-much-going-on/ http://www.photosbyrobin.com/blog/oh-so-much-going-on/#comments Tue, 27 Nov 2007 00:17:00 +0000 Robin http://www.photosbyrobin.com/blog/oh-so-much-going-on/ OH man! I’m getting that really OVERWHELMED feeling again…uggh! I cannot believe that Thanksgiving is already over! And Claire’s party, and our Halloween party…and I haven’t blogged about any of it! And next week we head to Jamaica! I’m SOOO not ready for that either…haven’t even begun to think about what to pack!!
OK, first some fun…have you Elfed Yourself yet? We did! Check it out: http://www.elfyourself.com/?id=9553585523 – kinda funny!
I’ve been buying some templates lately and doing a few of my own here & there. Here are some examples I thought I’d share…{names changed to protect the innocent}:
I was going to sell them but I guess I really don’t have the time/energy this late in the year. Oh well! There’s always next year…
Robin :-)

This Green one was modified from a freebie on http://www.designerdigitals.com/ – giving them credit! Love it!

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