Saturday, March 17, 2012

Cupcakes and Vacations

Hi friends!

I have a few updates:
I went on a FABULOUS retreat with my Digisisters to Breckenridge, Colorado last weekend. There is so much to tell you about: a photo scavenger hunt, posing techniques, learning Lightroom, white balance, and flash, spending 40 minutes trying to get a good sun flare shot, a sleigh ride that the musher and singer will never forget....  Oh yeah. Lots to tell. But I have to wait for my EHD to come back to me in the mail so I can have all the photos taken over the 5 days. 


Guess how many photos we took......

Between 12 women, who are all photographers and digital scrapbookers, we took 10,122 photos in 4 days! 

No I won't bore you with all of them.  *chkl*
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I finally updated to Lion and iCloud!  Yes, it took me a while!
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I have ordered Lightroom! I was using iPhoto, but it takes a full 10 minutes to load now, and since I got my new camera, I decided I needed something that works better for more and larger files than iPhoto.  I have been uploading my photos into folders and it's not a pretty sight trying to browse through them that way! I'm super excited!
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Yesterday I went to a squadron Burger Burn (we in normal worlds call it a barbeque.) I made mini cupcakes to bring.  I'm glad I did, because there were only two deserts and well over a hundred people!


 Let me tell you these were not easy to photograph!  I started off shooting in Aperture Priority but either the chocolate buttercream was too dark, or the white buttercream was blown out, so I ended up in Manual.  Once I had a few pics I thought were okay, I still had to adjust the "fill light" and "recovery" settings.
But they sure went fast!  I'm glad I saved a couple at home for us!
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6 comments:

  1. Love the cupcakes, and have fun learning Lightroom!

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  2. Great post, and yummy looking cupcakes, but you should've said you went on a retreat with SOME of your digisisters. chkl ;)

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  3. You're right, iDebbie! SOME of my Digisisters- but it felt like you all were there, because we kept up just as many emails and Facebook posts as before! chkl

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  4. Love the summary post. I am horribly behind on my blog and I thought that after all the Dec Daily posting that I'd keep going in 2012....not! LOL! Those look sooooo yummy, and gosh those ladies are pretty. hehe. ;)

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  5. What a lovely group of pretty ladies and you taking them

    delicious cupcakes.

    Are you not the sweeted cup cake yourself .

    Look at you so pretty and slim and hair so prettyand a delightful smile.

    Dont we envy you. In a good way though.

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  6. Oh thank you! You are so sweet, Carol!

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