pictures

hmmmm, the start of something new?
maybe...
I don't need to start anything new.
But I had one of those moments, when I was working and
someone flipped on my brain with a switch and there it was...
I had to stop what I was doing and I took 15-20 minutes to take it out of my head...
now there it sits...

I have four things on my design wall right now...
The scrappy stars below.
a pink green girls quilt...
a purple and green girls quilt

and
a scrappy collision of fabrics and quilters...

If you take
Kathie of Inspired by antique Quilts,

Karen of the selvage Quilter

myself,
and a BASICS house block or two...

Can you imagine what Kind of a quilt it will be?



;-)
FUN. that is for sure...
Karen, and Kathie both gave me some blocks
that I could put my touches into it and
play with to make
a donation quilt for BASICS....
It will be one of the "Special" quilts for the auction...

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I've had a few questions lately about what kind of camera
do I use.. since I have many bright happy pics on my blog.
Actually my camera is not all that great...It's ok.

It's a 8.o mega pixel
Canon Powershot pro 1
Which I have dropped several times, and the body
is all bent and sticking up on it...

The Key to good photos,
is to shoot without the flash
in DAYLIGHT.

Or if you don't have daylight,

I often shoot things in the pitch dark with a flash.
(this above was taken today, it's dark and rainy.)
It needs the color boosted a bit, and adjusted to get true white
in the background.

This can be fixed with a good photo program...

The Second KEY to good photos.
no matter what kind of camera you have.
Is a good PHOTO program that you load your photos into.

One that let's you adjust the warm and cool colors
in your images...
For instance,

the above photo was taken on a rainy day today,
with a flash and overhead lights.
bad idea.

because of the over head lights I get a bright washout.
But I can still go in to my photo program,
kill the yellow from the overhead lights.
and quite nearly make it look like a day light photo...
push your saturation just a tad to perk up the colors
add a little contrast


Taking the pic I shot in the dark,

Adjust the blue/yellow...
this above looks a little blue to me.
punch the saturation, and make sure it look as it does when
I am standing in front of the quilt just looking at it...

Check for a true white in your images.
in this case I was really looking at the wall.
It's neither blue tint or yellow tint...

I takes some practice, but you can make your photos look as they
should...
I don't do this every time, but nearly. I find most camera shoot dark.
So usually I will at least go in and lighten them up...

Hope I didn't confuse anyone! ;-)