January 5: Embracing Imperfection (Photography Challenge)

This photo was taken on a video recorder so it is low resolution. Here I blended it into the background paper.

 

Since my photos were taken on a cell phone, they were not very crisp. I purposely made them small and used enhancement features to make them a bit crisper.


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Oh, I think I can find a few photos to work with!

 

One of the hazards of candid shots is capturing people with odd expressions on their faces. I've also got a nasty bit of lights being reflected in the background, but I used the photo as is. And, I chose this photo because it made me chuckle even though I'm sure both of my children would like to see this picture deleted forever.

 

This was a cell phone shot as it was nearing night, so really grainy & not too sharp.

 

Both pictures were a bit imperfect. The large one was fuzzy and in the little one Jacob was orange. I left the fuzzy picture alone and used it as a background and added a photo filter to fix the color in the small photo.

Here's the original picture

 

Ooh, I have many blurry cell phone pics to work with.

 

I used that photo : bad framing, horrible shadow that I deleted, not interesting colors, and not perfectly clear.

 

All the photos from this Christmas are less than perfect. and there are precious few of those. Precious few. The memories though of spending time with very dear friends - I won't skip that for anything.

I thought that a couple of lines at the top explained it all, but I will go in more detail if you like: the photos are in awful light, they are blurry, people in the photos are looking away, the one in the top left is blurred because the girls are giggling, and it made the photo blur... but I cherish them all because I have got so few, and it was a Christmas with my very sick friend, and her family, so I wanted to keep all the photos, and use them for my pages, too

 

my husband and my daugther moved so much during this time that it's impossible to have a beautiful picture ... but i love to take picture of this silly moment. (and some video too) Love the complicity they have during these moments !!

 

I struggled with this challenge... I have more then enough bad pics but nothing worked until I found this pic. My mother and me where trying to take selfies (way back when they weren't even invented yet, with a regular camera, haha). We both had our camera's and both looked at our own camera instead of one of both. My face was really red, I fixed that with a few filters. The worst thing about this pic... we where at the Louvre in France... Do you see the Louvre anywhere in that pic? lol! I must say I really like this pic because all of the silliness and just the fact that it's me and my mom with amazing memory behind it.

 

I love imperfect photos. A lot of time they tell the real story. And I want my kids to know the real story. Not just the pretty moments. Therefore I give you mess extraordinaire



What I find imperfect about this photo is well the mess itself. But the mess tells the story of how she got to be so tired out. Also that it is a cell phone picture giving it a fuzzier quality than I would prefer.

 

here's mine

one of my first picture taken with my iPhone and the flash was on !!!

the original picture

 

I sharpened and lightened this photo, but it still looked awful. So I just reminded myself that it's the MEMORY I'm scrapping, rather than the actual picture!

 

Didn't think I could salvage this one. It was taken on a phone at the movie. The colors were weird and dark. The background was my SIL's crazy sweater. So I played with the depth of field and applied a lambwaffle action.

 

here's a page from me too! that photo is a little blury, and dark! however, very precious to me.. my son Filip "holding" his little brother for the first time

 

My photo was out of focus (the focal point was the books on the bookshelf in the background unfortunately), so I ran a defog action against the photo to try to sharpen up the boys without oversharpening the books on the bookshelf.

Here is the original photo:


Here is the photo with defog action applied:


And here is my page:

 

Great challenge Kim!

Here's my page:


I loved the funky hair these cows and wanted to take their picture. There were however no fences and I was so scared that they might come after me that I only payed attention to their every move. The result was blurry photos, bad compositions and the one cow that was constantly watching me turned her head EXACTLY when I clicked. Although they are bad pictures I still love how they look.