Here is my belated combo spread for Week 6 and Week 7. Combining the two weeks worked quite well in terms of content, since the winter keeps dragging on and my plans keep getting canceled due to bad weather. So, I fill my spread with screen captures from the Olympics and a picture of us having a very sexy Valentine's day with takeout and House of Cards Season 2.
I'll probably continue to combine two weeks together whenever I'm short on content for a single week. However, I will have to remind myself to work on the album if I'm not doing it weekly; I did find myself less motivated and procrastinating more on this combined spread (thus the lazy and inconsistent title card, since the last thing I felt like doing this week was going through the hassle of running cards through my laser printer). But done is better than perfect, forever amen.
Items used: Midnight Edition Core Kit, Photo Pocket Pages variety pack, Dear Lizzy Polka Dot Party mini kit, generic black ink pad, Canon Selphy printer, vellum paper, Sharpie pen, Kelly Purkey acrylic stamps (from her December Daily 2012 kit and Simon Says, which are no longer for sale), Smash date stamp, Thickers (similar), and a small "Simply Happy" pad of 3x4" journaling cards from Target by We R Memory Keepers (looks like this).
Custom Touches: Nothing too special! I printed a corner of Taco Joint's menu for the bottom left, and searched for a few photos online of the Olympics opening ceremony. The heart was the padded insert from a box of Valentine's day chocolates that I put into a pocket with nothing behind it; this way, the following week's card shows through as the patterned background. The brush script "Love" card on the left side was cut from an advertisement in the most recent Yoga Journal magazine.
I love that photo you took of House of Cards on TV. How did you get the exposure right? Whenever I take a photo of my TV it either comes out super bright, or the rest of the room is underexposed. I watched this new season in one week! So good :)
ReplyDeleteHi Vanessa! The original photo was a little contrasty-- dark room and bright tv. It did help some that I have a lamp to the right of the TV. My camera setting was 1/400 sec. at f/1.4 and ISO 1000. I tried to expose the tv correctly in-camera, and then I lightened the shadows and turned it B&W using Adobe Camera Raw in Adobe Bridge (which is a program similar to Lightroom used for photo management, if you're not familiar). I like Camera Raw more than Photoshop for image adjustments because I have more control over Highlights, Shadows, Blacks, Whites, Clarity, Vibrance, etc.
DeleteIf you're just using your iPhone to take pictures, maybe check out the photo app called Snapseed. I like it because you can selectively edit parts of an image. I use it when I want to lighten shadows on an iPhone image.
Hope that helps some!