Homeschool Fiction

Wow! It’s March already. Amazing how time can fly by when you are having so much fun, which is all February was about for my family and me.
It started with our annual Super Star Trek Sunday party. We then had a week of green screen photo shoots with the SOARing Unschoolers–end goal was [...]

Here are a few recent photographs of my kids and a couple of our cats (we now have five).

My family recently had the pleasure of going to Star Trek: The Exhibition at the Arizona Science Center in Phoenix.  This awesome traveling exhibit was fun for us since we’re all big Star Trek fans, although the promised shuttle simulation ride didn’t exist.  The website made it clear that photographs and cell phones were not [...]

As a surprise to our guests at our Super Star Trek party on February 1st, I took photographs of all of them who wanted their photo taken in front of a green screen.  Click here for “Fun with Green Screens PART ONE”.  Here are just a few more of the hundreds of fun photos we [...]

I’ve been spending the last several days with my daughters playing around with our green screened photographs from the photo shoots we’ve had recently.  Here are a couple fun pics of them in flowers (and we got even better ones of our friends!).  Happy Spring!

I hope you all had a lovely Valentine’s Day.  We spent the day working on remodeling my older daughter’s bedroom.  Then, my daughters both decided to wear their super cool Webkinz Valentine shirts and do a mini photo shoot (complete with all our pink Webkinz pets).  Here are a few of the results (they are [...]

Simply: A photography green screen is literally a green backdrop.  The material is usually fabric (often nylon or cotton), plastic, or paper. When a person or object is photographed in front of the green (or blue) screen, the green or blue is fairly easy to take out of the background (very easy with special software).  [...]

Ever since I was a child listening to Dr. Hook’s “The Cover of the Rolling Stone”, I’ve thought it would be super fun to have my face on the cover of a magazine.  Now with green screen technology (and the fun magazine overlays that came with it), I’m able to do just that.  Here are [...]