Our Hawaiian Vacation in Pictures

How fun is this week? The pressure of the contest is off and we can just share all of our fun vacation pictures!

In Dec. of 2007 we spent Christmas with my in-laws on the Big Island in Hawaii. I was pregnant with my youngest and my oldest was 3 1/2. I had purchased my first DSLR camera (Nikon d40x) three weeks before this vacation. So of course all of my pictures were all shot in auto. It is amazing to see how far I have come in my photographic journey since then.(A few of these pictures were taken by my husband or brother in law since I am in them!)
Check out all the fun vaca photos at I Heart Faces this week!

Our favorite beach in Hawaii... Kaiki Beach!

Watching for whales...

The Luau...

The amazing and beautiful Black Sand Beach...

Adventures in Grandma and Grandpa's swimming pool...

Our nightly entertainment...

Fix It Friday (6/5)

He are my edits for fix it Fri. I have had a crazy week so I will have to make my explanation brief, but I really wanted to participate.

1. Ran noiseware portrait setting.
2. Opened in ACR adjusted exposure, brightness, contrast and fill light to taste
3. Opened in PSE7
4. Cropped to 5x7
5. Used clone tool to remove circles under eyes and blemishes
6. Ran Digital Photography for Moms' Defog action, used Pea Soup layer at 100%
7. Ran Coffeeshop Perfect Portrait Action and adjusted layers to taste and that is edit #1
   

#1

On a copy of #1 ran Coffee Shop Warm Vintage action and adjusted darken layer to 30% and vintage layer to 53% and that is #2

#2

On a copy of #1 converted to sepia and added an old photo texture!

#3