February 19

I love Saturdays! When my husband's not working. But since he is, I was determined to make the best of it anyway. My three big kids were begging to get out of the house and those two precious little babies love being outside anytime, anywhere. The weather we've been having this week is just perfect for taking the kids to the park. So the plan was to make some soup for Brandy, who is still sick with the flu, since Tuesday, go to the bank, get Tyler, give Brandy the soup, and take a Mickey D's picnic to the park and spend the afternoon taking amazing pictures of all the kiddos at the park. Sounds like a great plan, eh? Well it was, and it went fabulously as planned, until we came home and I realized that every single one of the 200+ pictures I took were horrible. I forgot to change my settings back from aperture priority, which I apparently know nothing about, to the auto setting. Grrrrr! The pictures are either completely blown out, or so dark you can't see anything. How does that even happen? Frustration, I tell ya! That causes major frustration.  There were so many pictures that would have been perfect! Absolutely perfect. Oh well, it's a lesson learned. I can't bring myself to delete them. Surely something can be done! If you have any suggestions for how to fix them I am all ears :) Please share!

When I brought this one into PSE, and did a levels adjustment, this is the best I could get for Claire, but the background is still awful. I took them in JPEG format. Is there any hope?

Before

After