i ♥ faces--Before and After

Wow..so much has changed since I first held a DSLR--back in February of this year. My next door neighbor, who is an avid photographer, kindly lent me his Canon 20D. It was love at first sight. I loved how the photos came out--the DOF, the clarity. Then I used one of my friend's old, very old version of Adobe Photoshop--and that was the rebirth of this passion (I said, rebirth, because I first fell in love with photography when I was 16).

It's so funny to see, how much I have come..here's a picture that I took of my daughter. I don't even remember what in the world I did in terms of editing. I just remember I played around on Photoshop with it. And yes, I was so proud of the result:


..and this (now I look at it, I am slightly embarrassed..)



And these two are the (hopefully) new and improved, taken from a wedding that I was blessed to shoot just two weeks ago:



For the second set, I really took the time and fixed/edited them, using my still-not-too-expensive PSE. I know I will look at these two in a year or so and laugh at myself again...but this is what photography is all about--you learn and improve as you shoot away.