"That was the one. I think that's gonna come out really nice."

Hello blog. It’s been so long. I’m getting back together with you again—but only temporarily, because I don’t have much to say to you, and when I’m finished, I’ll withdraw back into my cocoon of reticent ambivalence and I probably won’t look at you much until 2014.  

So, where to start in the catch-up game of 2012? Did you know Jesse takes awesome pictures? Probably not, because I forgot to tell you. Well, he does. He is the official pictorial “documentarian”—it’s a real word—because sometimes I cut the tops of people’s heads off, which is weird since I go to RISD where we spend a lot of time talking about balanced, harmonious compositions, but anyway…

I was taking my Photoshop class at RISD in fall 2012 and had to learn how to make good photos look better. I learned how to whiten teeth, make eyes look bluer, add highlights, and make short people look taller by elongating the neck/torso/legs. I needed photos to practice with, so Jesse turned into the Warwick Ward Family Photographer for the month of November. I stood around and tried to keep the dads calm using my best Deb from Napoleon Dynamite voice: "Kay, hold still right there. Now, just imagine you're weightless, in the middle of the ocean, surrounded by tiny little sea horses," and "That was the one. I think that's gonna come out really nice" (300 shots later).

Afterwards, I did touch ups on PS. Not that anybody needed longer necks and whiter teeth. Instead, I needed to make the blanket they were sitting on disappear, the blanket with, "Rich Wedding, Aug. 2005" embroidered all over it.

  

 

Ok, so these were my first trial runs. I'm much better now and won't make your teeth glow in the dark. In my Pedro voice, I might tell you, "I could build you a Christmas card or something:"  

Or a baptism announcement: 

Or a baby-q invitation (didn't know this was a real thing until someone sent me specific instructions for recreating this on Adobe Illustrator):

So if you need something, you know where to find me :)