I'm trying to win a Shoot Sac

Hey everyone! I'm suffering from the really bad, icky, nasty, someone-please-kill-me-and-put-me-out-of-my-misery sickies, but there is a cool contest on and I wanted to enter. I should have done so earlier, but I procrastinated and now I'm down to entering literally at the last minute.

Jodi from MPC Actions, and Jessica Claire from Shoot Sac, have teamed up to bring and awesome contest. In this contest you show why you need a shoot sac, post it on your blog, flickr acct, whatever and they will choose a winner. You can learn all the details and enter, if you hurry, here:

http://mcpactions.com/blog/2009/02/10/shootsac

It's an awesome product and something I can probably only afford if I win. LOL But I can dream, right? :) Here is my entry for the contest, sans watermark:



I just couldn't seem to conjure up an creativity with my head feeling like I'm breathing through mud. But at least I gave it a shot, right? :) Short of carrying my lenses in a fanny pack, I have to lug around my huge backpack. It's not ideal at all. Hence my idea for the shot.

Ok, get your bohiney busy and enter before tonight's deadline!

Playing with frames in photoshop. These are my kiddo's new nightlights.

My Niece

Here's a shot I took of my niece in November. (Yeah.. I'm just now getting these processed. My bad.)

My latest work

Rachel 11-29-08
Originally uploaded by Sparkys Girl

Hey everyone! My kiddos and I did some shots recently, hoping for something to use for a Christmas card. Here's a few I liked!

New Poster Software

As a photographer, I'm always on the look-out for cool new effects I can use. A recent issue of one of my photo magazines brought my attention to a program called Poster Forge. I downloaded the free version so I could play with it and see what it's like. I used a shot I took of an eagle in Alton, Illinois. Here's the result:



It can also do this...




And this...




Not to shabby. If I buy the full version it will take off the poster forge watermark in the corner. The downside is that this is it. It's not overly creative and I think I'd get bored with the same 3 templates over and over. It also looks like that if I want to actually print these as a poster, I have to buy the accompanying software for printing as well. I'm not sold yet.