Thursday, April 16, 2009

Why Do I Even Bother, Day 106



Any editing whizzes out there who can tell/show me how to make this into a lovely photo of my boy smiling sweetly as I point my camera in his direction?? I'll take any and all suggestions!

This was to be a perfect capture of my son at brunch on Easter morning but obviously you can see he ruined the moment, and then I shot a blurry picture.

Now, does everybody see what I'm up against???

13 comments:

SaraG said...

It doesn't get any easier!!
Great picture of him though. You will just have to be more sneaky!!
To answer your question from my photo today, yes the mushrooms are edible. I forgot what he calls them. I will ask him tomorrow and let you know. I will also have to find a pic I took a few years ago. He found some mushrooms as big as a coke can....

Lucy Corrander said...

Nope. It couldn't be better. It's like a painting. Smiles are lovely but constant smiles are boring.

Sorry you couldn't get through to PICTURES JUST PICTURES the other day. I think it was because of a mistake I made when preparing the following day's post. It was 'Cat's Eyes'. I wrote the 'C', pressed the wrong button and it published itself - just that! 'C'! I deleted the post straight away but this leaves an http on the internet which one can't do anything about. At least, I don't think so. I guess you got the link to the (by then) non-existant post. I do apologise.

Seriously, this photo of your son is a lovely and characterful one. And if you think it is an odd expression . . . well, I think many of us could produce much worse ones from the boys in our various families. See a camera and they go kind of . . . hmm!

Lucy

Robert Hill said...

I'm with Lucy - I believe sometimes the little imperfections in the photo, make the photo. This is a great photo...

bentonflocke said...

I agree with Robert!

Have a nice weekend!

Unknown said...

I thought this is good.

Girl Tornado said...

Kids. Although this really isn't a bad photo... now my son, who is 27 mind you, loves to ruin, I mean really RUIN, just about every photo I take of him. He just can't help making goofy faces. Sigh.

Christina said...

:) I think it's a good photo.

Sujomi said...

I like it! It shows his personality - and that he has great self-confidence to be comfortable enough to make faces to be captured like that! Gotta love those goofy kids. ;)

(Ok, just had to add my word verification was "suedies" - I'm a little paranoid now LOL!)

Mari said...

It does show his personality and it's a fun photo! My kids act the same way when I try to take a picture.

Drew said...

Dot,

Didn't you read our tutorial on April 1st. Get that liquify tool, give him a big ole goofy smile. He will cooperate from then on...I promise! :)

angie {the arthur clan} said...

This is cracking me up! You caught the true boy at this age. :)

Of course, you could try Andrea's liquify idea. (Hee!)

Dot O said...

Andrea, I will have to look into that liquify tool! Definitely!!!!

Linda said...

Actually, this looks just like a painting. I thought it was a photo of a painting when I first saw it and I thought, wow, that's posh, having portraits of your family!