We have new life in our saviour! What a blessed day, the day we remember how he defeated death. Easter is just a wonderful time of the year. It is also an excuse to take photos (not that I need excuses), so I did an Easter photo shoot of my littlest sister the other evening and she is just the cutest ever so I had to share the photos. 

I did a photo shoot of Ann last Easter with the same basket of chalk eggs, and since those eggs had survived a whole year without being used I decided we better do it again you can see last years post here. My photography and editing has improved since then. And of course I rarely took photos in RAW then, but all these were taken in RAW before I edited them and saved them as jpg. files. Sorry about all that technical talk for those of you who do not understand such things. You may now scroll down and enjoy the photos.

And for anyone who is interested in the photography side (technical talk) of these photos, as I said I took them all in RAW and then edited them in Lightroom. In these two last shots you can see the original shot in the corner and how it turned out after editing. 

You may have noticed that I took nearly all these photos with the camera facing towards the sun which would probably be a mistake if I was not taking them in RAW. But in a RAW file there is such a great range of information and I could bring back as much light as I wanted, and fix up the white balance to be nice and warm. And in this next shot actually make it look a bit hazy. RAW files always need editing, but the final result is so much better and they are much easier to edit without loosing any information than jpg. files are.

The main edits I have done to all these images were adding exposure, some to the whole photo and other parts just over Ann, also adding a little contrast and obviously sharpening them, as all RAW files need to be sharpened at least a little. Anyway I hope you enjoyed those photos, happy Easter!

Does your family have any Easter tradition?

Have you ever tried taking photos in RAW? or do you always shoot jpg. If you have not tried it you seriously should!

Have a wonderful day, He is risen! We have reason to celebrate.

Jesus Came

To bring healing and wholeness to the hurting

To bring faith to the doubting

& life to the faithful

Well since it is nearly Easter I thought I should take some Easter photos. So here they are. Tell me which one is your favourite.

I took those first few straight into the sun, using a reflector (foil covering a foam lid) to light up this side a bit. The photo below is taken away from the sun. The first ones in my point of view are much prettier. Though for the ones above I did have to lighten the foreground and basket in Lightroom.

Just a bit of fun with colour and black and white.

Then Ann came outside and naturally wanted to play with the eggs and basket... so I gave up on them and took photos of her. with them of course.

She didn't have her smile on that morning though so I only really liked the photos where she was not looking at me. Happy Easter everyone!