The Worlwide Photography Gala Awards

I woke to find the best email in my inbox ever. I decided to enter WPGA's Portrait and People international photography contest. It was my first time so I was afraid and almost talked myself out of it. I'm glad I didn't. One of my images was awarded silver and will appear in a book. Have a wonderful weekend. Liz

The Worldwide Photography Gala Awards

Announcement / Press Release

Portrait & People Contest

7560 images were received from 57 countries. 1286 (17%) images passed the first
screening and were entered into the second screening. 158 images (2% of the total
submitted) of 147 artists were selected to be featured in the Book Portraits and
People 2011.

I Heart Faces...

I haven't had a chance to participate in the I Heart Faces photo challenges, so I wanted to enter this weeks. There are always such wonderful photos entered.

Self Portrait

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So, this week the I Heart Faces Challenge is "Self Portrait". I HATE having my photo taken. I tried to take photos of myself with my camera and hated all of them lol. I took this one of myself with my Blackberry. Go figure, it's one of my favorite photos of myself... so I Heart Faces photo challenge, here I am ... Liz Brown... Self Portrait lol lol

Enjoy your week:)

I Heart Faces...Scenic Black and White

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This week the I Heart Faces photo challenge is for scenic black and white photos. I've been working with my film camera a lot lately and took this lil model to a topiary garden. It has a beautiful pond filled with lily pads, fish and frogs. I decided to submit this image. I love the old 1940's feel it inspires.

Fix it Friday Week #74

This week's I Heart Faces Fix it Friday Photo is so adorable, I couldn't resist giving it a go at editing. I softened the pumpkin's the bring the attention to the adorable little subject. I adjusted the color curves by giving each RBG curve a slight s curve.

Original Image © Dana Suggs Photography

My Color Edit

My Black and White Edit

I Heart Faces...

I'm so happy to have a photo featured on I Heart Faces Community Site.

Gimp - Liz B Fix it Friday Entry

Original Image

My Photojournalism Edit

This is my entry for the Fix it Friday Challenge. I used Gimp. It's a free photo editing software available for download on the web. Sometimes if I have to much running, Photoshop slows down my computer, so I use Gimp instead.

I chose to clone out the lights in back of the father's head so the emphasis would be on the emotion between him and his daughter. I used three curve layers. I gave the red channel a slight s curve. The green channel a curve slightly higher than the red one. Then the blue channel a slight s curve. I added in a layer of 969696 gray to bring out the skin tones and highlight them.

I'm not very good at tutorial writing ( forgive me). I wanted to give the photo a more photojournalism tone with the editing I choose.