Wednesday, December 15, 2010

Christmas Photo Adventure

Although I have yet to actually start making our Christmas cards, over the weekend we did actually manage to get our family Christmas photo taken. Let me just say that this was a bit of an adventure. A couple of times in the past we've had a friend come over to push the shutter release button for us because it's so hard to get the dogs to look at the camera when there's no one behind it. I think in the future we'll have to plan ahead a little more and hire someone to come over and help us, because Sunday's photo shoot was a bit of a disaster--albeit a hysterical one.

With the help of a remote and a tripod, I took 101 total pictures, starting with a few just of Chad where I was trying to get the exposure right using just the light from our window. Once we got the dogs (sort of) placed I just started holding down the remote button, instructing Chad to just keep smiling and hoping that eventually all of the dogs would at some point look at the camera. Although I never actually captured them looking at the exact same time, there were a few decent pics of each of them in the batch, so I was able to use Photoshop to edit together different dog heads/bodies/eyeballs to fabricate one coherent and acceptable picture. This is the final product with sort of an "antiqued" finish.


Overall I'm fairly happy with what I came up with, and I appreciate the end result even more because of what we went through to get it. It's pretty darn hysterical. Enjoy!!



5 comments:

Tish said...

that is HUH-LARIOUS! your editing is impeccable my dear!!!

loved how the changes were totally bumpin to the beat of the jam.

GOOD WORK LUCE FAMILY!

Anonymous said...

Love the final picture! I should have Randy do the same thing when we try to take group pictures of the kids. Good job Kim!!
-Andrea

Jen said...

LOL, love the clicker!

cw said...

Excellent work!

AmyD said...

That was great! How in the world will you top that video with paper cards? Just send everyone a link! :) Surefire joy, right there.