Family Reunion--St. George, UT

This is another lo from our family reunion.  Since I started digital scrapbooking, I take pictures differently.  Many times I take pictures of the scenery with the intent to use it as a background.  I like to do panoramics and spread them all the way across the lo.  

Roger's Baby Blessing

This LO of Roger's blessing is part of a large book I had published for my whole family.  Roger was blessed at our family reunion in July 2006.  The photo on the left was actually taken in our living room before the reunion.  I changed the levels around and added more light to the photo.  All the backgrounds in this book were white, and, for the interest of time, I added black borders around each photo (stroke/outline) to give each picture a little definition.

This LO is in black and white because I had a hard time getting the color right in a couple of the pictures.  Also, my sister-in-law took some of the photos with BW film.  To make life easier, I just made them all BW, and that took care of the problem.  

Rogers Family Reunion

These LO's are part of a 160-page book I made for my family.  One thing I like to do, especially if the background of a photo doesn't look well with the subject, is to "cut out" the subject, and just place them on the page.  Both of the above pictures of me and my nephew, Xander, were taken indoors.  I just cut us out of the photo, placed them on the page, and then added a large shadow to make it look like we were literally on the page.  The picture below of my nephew Mason popping out of the page is one of my favorites in this book.