Having fun with photography

This week Jason & I took the kids downtown to take pics for Mikel's 1 year birthday.  I usually take the kids to Portrait Innovations, but we are strapped for cash due to the adoption process so we decided to do it ourselves.  We figured we had nothing to loose, and if the pics were awful we at least had a fun time as a family.  I took over 200 pics, but narrowed it down to about 60 pics we actually liked. Since then Jason & I have also been experimenting with Photoshop some & we have really enjoyed what you can do with Photoshop brushes.  After playing with these pics some I REALLY want to learn more, just finding the time might be difficult.  So until I have some free time I will experiment - but if any of you have any pointers please share :)

You can go to this link to see 20 of our favorite pictures from the photo shoot....

Below are some of our Photoshop experiments...