Our Christmas card this year was a huge hit with the fam, I got phone calls and texts the moment someone got it in the mail. I like that. Not because they like my card but because technology is really making us so disconnected *she says as she types on her blog* so I like that people still appreciate an old school Christmas card.
And yes, I'm discussing Christmas at the end of January, what can I say, I'm a little disorganized lately. Half of ya'll that received cards from me are probably chuckling because you received them just a few weeks ago. Yup, true to Lorri-fashion I did an oopsy - I sent what I thought were all my cards just in the nick of time. Only to look in my glove box a few weeks later to discover the other half. Grrrrr. I put them there because I ran out of stamps and meant to get more. So yeah, anyhow, some of you asked how I made the card so here's a super fast, not technical version of it.
First off, don't let me fool you...for every nice photo you see on this blog or on my walls or on my phone there are 20 terrible ones. Seriously, once I shot over 400 photos during an outing and only like and used about 50 of them. It happens often. So to get my photo for our card I set my camera on a tripod and I struggled with getting a good shot because, lay down and grab a brown paper sack, I lost my favorite portrait lens. Now breathe slowing into the sack and sit back up. Yeah, I'm convinced it's in the house somewhere because I am psycho when it comes to my camera/equipment and can't see myself just placing it somewhere and forgetting it. I always put it back in my bag right away when I change lenses. Anyway, I used a lens that I wouldn't typically use in this situation, I'll spare you the dorky details and just say it was annoying. My first plan was to do something around the tree and photoshop everything else out the background.
The setup wasn't working due to my restrictions with my lens. So we changed locations and set up shop in "the square hall" as I call it. It's not really a hall, it's more of a tiny common area with doors covering almost ever inch of it. I hung a white sheet with the hopes of being able to skip the whole photoshop fiasco (I suck at photoshop, but I'm slowly learning). We didn't really discuss posing. I hate posing actually. I'm more into the candid look. So we simply winged it. Is that a word?
When I picked one I like I cropped it a bit so that the background didn't look too busy. All I did was adjust the brightness.
In the end our card looked like this:
And now I'm trying to decide what to do for Valentine's Day, any excuse to pull out the Nikon - yeah?
Happy Humpday,
Lor
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