Yesterday, I wrote a post showing a Video (Click Here to Watch the Video) of Stefano’s First Birthday, that happened one year ago.
Unfortunately, I didn’t have to much time to edit any of the pictures to ad to that post, so today I am doing that.
Last year, Stefano’s party was great, and so was the party yesterday. A lot of balloons, food, drinks, a giant ELMO, and a Clown doing some face painting.
I want to thank Mariane and Carillo (Stefano’s parents) for inviting me to be part of Stefano’s special day. I also want to thank Carol for helping me with the photos.
Here are some of the shots that I selected to post here (if you want to see al the pictures taken, please write a comment below with your email address, so I can send the link where the other pictures will be posted)
Carillo was ready to his son’s party.
Look how happy Mariane was watching Stefano playing with his golf cart.
Gramdpa couldn’t hide his excitement.
Grandma and Grandpa came from Brazil just for the birthday… Hey… You guys look to cool to be grandma and grandpa.
Did I mention that the party theme was: Elmo’s World?
She did a great job painting the kid’s faces
Sorry everybody, but I have to say that… This is my 1st place of the day… What a great picture!!!
This is a picture of Mariane’s Family… Such great people. Did I mention that they came from Brazil just for this birthday?
If you want to see all the pictures from this birthday, Please write a comment below with your email address. Thanks!!!
But if you don’t want to see all the pictures from this birthday…
You can still write a comment saying how much you love me…
One year ago I was hired to cover this amazing birthday. Stefano was celebrating his 1st birthday, and he had the best party ever.
Today is July 11th, and Stefano will be celebrating his 2nd birthday. I am glad to say that once more, I will be there to help him saving some little, but important memories for generations to come.
Check this little video from last year’s birthday party.
Let me know what you think about this video… I love comments!
I am so excited about one of my articles that was published at one of the most important Websites on the Net.
The article explain the importance of hiring a Top Wedding Photographer.
Do you want to know why you should hire a Professional Wedding Photographer? If you are a bride or groom, this article is a must. The best 8 tips to find a Top Wedding Photographer. Step by Step from finding to hiring a Wedding Photographer.
For the last few days, I have been very busy writing some articles about Wedding Photography. I am submitting them to some different Magazines and Websites here are the titles:
- Life Might Give you Second Chances, Wedding Photography Will Not!
- Why should I hire a Top Wedding Photographer?
- How to Find a Top Wedding Photographer?
- Which Wedding Photography Package Should I Choose?
- How to avoid wedding photography fiasco.
Whenever they come live online, I will post the URL here. OK?
Before you start reading to deep into this post or watching the following video, I want to say something important…
This is a very creative video that will teach you 101 tips for short-cuts in Photoshop. If you don’t know what Photoshop is, or you don’t care about the short-cuts, you might not enjoy this video as much as I did. But, if you like Photoshop, go ahead and get a pen and paper… You are going to need it.
This is a Music Video, more like a Video-Clip (MTV style), that will certainly help you with your Photoshop skills.
Enjoy it!
I would love to know what you think about this post.
4th of July is a very important Holiday, maybe the most important American Holiday.
Today, even if is just for today, I want you to forget if you are Democrat or Republican, if you leave on East or West Coast, I want you to forget if you are Rich or Poor, and I don’t care what country you were born, because today we are Americans.
Today I want to see you smiling… because I will be smiling back at you!!!
Today I want you to give me your hand… because I’m coming to shake yours!!!
Tonight I want you to stand proud at the first blast of the fireworks and remember…
… Today is our INDEPENDENCE DAY!
HAPPY 4th of JULY
PS. The dog on this picture, is my big baby MAX (isn’t he cute?)
As you know, I like read and study a lot. I am always looking for a way to improve my income and share this knowledge with other people. I also like to check all kind of opportunities that Internet has to offer.
Today, we celebrate the 4th of July, and with my wife and son traveling, it left me to much time on my hands to check all kind of Crazy Websites. So, I want to share with you what I just found about this new way to make money.
I want you to watch this next video very carefully (not even 60 seconds).
You are not going to believe what your eyes are going to see.
Here you go…
I told you… I have to much free time on my hands.
:-)
I wish that I could teach you how to make money that easy.
Blog, Twitter and Flickr…, these are my three new great ways to keep in contact with people that want to know a little more about me and my work.
If you are reading this post, means that you are on my Blog ( www.paulopics.com/blog ). Here I write about some of my work, clients and some personal stuff also.
My next “thing” is TWITTER. There, I write 3 or four times a day just little sentences about what I am doing of my day. You can also check the notes from Twitter on the landing page of my website www.paulopics.com.
And two months ago I signed to FLICKR (you can post some random pictures there). I use Flickr to organize a group that I created FORT LAUDERDALE PHOTOWALK. There you can check not just pictures that I’ve taken, but also pictures of everybody that is part of that group.
Let me know if I can help you with your Blog, Twitter or Flickr. OK?
Don’t you have that days that you wake up and you just don’t feel the energy?That, was how my morning started!
On this Sunday, where my wife and son are traveling for my wife’s family reunion, I woke up late with the whole house in silence. I could even hear a far way sound of singing birds outside of the house. After a fast breakfast, I came to the computer to edit some more of my work, but something changed inside mewhen I decided to have a break and came across this 60 seconds video.
May I have 60 seconds of your time to make you smile?
I want to update my Website, but first I need to finish this one that I started creating to my wife.
Peggy is a talented Photo-Stylist (CLICK HERE to visit Peggy’s Website) and she has been traveling all over the country helping her clients to create a personal and unique image for their catalogs and commercials. She works with clients like; Nike, The Home Depot, Kmart, Frontgate, McDonald’s, Macy’s and so many other companies and celebrities that it would take to much of your time if I have to mention all them here.
Anyway…
She has two very strong agencies representing her: Team and Ford, but once a while she has some other stylists or photographers asking asking her to see her work.
This week she asked me if I could create a website for her, so she could organize some of her work there to people see them. It might take few days until I finish the whole project, but I wanted to show you what the Landing Page will look like.
First of all, I have one thing that I need to say to all the people that came to our PHOTOWALK:
Y O U M A D E M Y D A Y !!!
A huge thanks to everyone that showed up for the Fort Lauderdale Photowalk today. We had a great group of 43 people (including 2 kids 1 baby and 1 dog). I couldn’t expect more from everyone, and I think everyone can agree that it was a “picture” perfect morning (a little hot, but better than if it was raining).
So thanks again, and now let’s get those images uploaded.
Click on this Link: Flickr , and download your picture into our Fort Lauderdale Photowalk Group.
Here are few more pictures…
We had so many people that we had to take 2 group shots
Group 1
Group 2
I am glad that you guys could make it
Thanks to GOLD’S GYM HOLLYWOOD for the 20 T-Shirts
We are going to meet around 9:45am in front a little water fountain at Las Olas Riverfront, Fort Lauderdale. There are few different places there that you can park your car, even a valet parking. If you get lost call me: 954-270-0751. We will be there no matter what (Rain or Sun)!!!
Remember that this is a FREE event and that you can bring friends, family and even kids. I would recommend to every body (even kids) to have a camera (even if it is a $3.00 disposable camera) so you can really enjoy all that Photowalk has to offer.
So… What should you bring?
CAMERA-YES!!! After all… this is a Photowalk. It can be a “Professional Camera” or a ”Point and Shoot”. Remeber to check the “battery” and the “digital card” or “film”.
LENSES- I will bring just my 17 - 55mm, but you can choose whatever works better for you (just remember that we are going to be walking and heavy lenses might be too intrusive to other people and hard to carry around)
TRIPOD-For me… It is a NO!!! This is a personal choice. Since it will be daylight and I don’t want to carry extra weight, so I will not bring mine (some places give a hard time to photographers with tripod).
FLASH-It is a MAYBE. Most of the time you will not need one. Just if you want to take some portraits of people to.
WATER-Yes!
SNACKS-
I think that you got the idea already…
You can stay for the whole 1.7 miles, or as long as you feel that works for you. At the end we might grab some drink or some brunch and talk about our experience. That is the beauty of this event, you will meet people that have something in common with you.
Don’t forget to bring a lot of BUSINESS CARDS.
Just to remind you…
I can not thank enough GOLD’S GYM Hollywood, that gave us “20 T-Shirts” for this event, plus few “1 week free workout pass”.
As you might know, last week I was helping my wife with some shots for some editorial pictures that she needed to send to her agent.
On this post, I want to show you how I use photoshop to make a better presentation of my pictures. I learned a technique similar to this with Scott Kelby.
I will start with my last photo-session that I did last week:
First,I open the picture in photoshop and make all the adjustments (levels, color correction, etc)
Next…
-I create a Stroke (inside - size 10 - white),
- a Canvas Size width and height 0.1″ (black)
- another Canvas Size width and height 1″ (using some color from the picture - on this case a dark green)
- another Canvas Size Height 1″ (just the height and just to the bottom)
- a Stroke (inside - size 10 - white)
- a Canvas Size width and height 0.2″ (black)
And for last I choose some font and write down my information…
I like to print few 4″x6″ and leave them at the GYM, Hair Salon, etc…
I want to thank you for stopping by and having some time to read and comment on my posts.
This blog was created with you in mind. Here I will post few of my professional work, plus few little things of my personal life. I hope you enjoy my blog as much as I do creating it for you.
Thank You For Your Support!
