What to Wear ~ Fall Family Session

Everything here can be found at Old Navy!

Old Photo Flare

I have been looking at photographs differently lately.

When I see something that stands out I ask myself,

"Do I like that?"

if the answer is yes, then I ask myself,

"WHY?"

It has been through this process that I have come to realize that I love, Love, LOVE photographs with an old photo flare. What about you, do you love old photos too?

Just for fun...

...just for me!

                   when I asked Ken for his ring today he said "Sure, but for what?"
     
This was what:

to photograph of course!

CD & DVD Cases

Perfect for your photo slide show!

I Heart Faces ~ Pets

I usually don't do much personal posting on the blog. However when I saw that this weeks challenge on iheartfaces was pets, my mind went right to the pics I just took of Tess.

I am certainly not a pet photographer so when I get a photograph where she is looking at me I tend to think it is great. Anyway here is a photo for this weeks challenge of our 3 1/2 year old lab beagle mix.



One Photo ~ Three Ways

I am a firm believer that if you are a professional photographer then your photographs should reflect that. So today I wanted to show how I go from a raw image straight out of my camera to my finished product. I can certainly see a differance in these images, but the goal is to still make them look natural not fake.

This image was taken on a ridiculusly hot day, and it was partly cloudy.

This is straight out of the camera, not to bad - maybe a little bright but not blown out.

and this is the same image just edited,

so in photoshop I adjusted my levels (made my blacks blacker & whites whiter)

then took my paintbrush @ 23% opacity & took some of the shine off their faces

took my dodge tool & lightly did their eyes

took my burn tool & burned the edges of the brick to draw the eye into the center

put a softening filter @ 20% then erased eye & mouth areas

& wah-lah the finished product:

For black & white images I desaturate (the image always needs to be tweaked after it is desaturated)

then I go into levels & tweak again

then I tweak in curves (very similar to levels but helps to pop the image a little more)

personally I don't mind my black & white images blown out a little

then I burn the edges a little more to give it more contrast

it looks like this:



If you liked this post  please leave a comment & I will do more like this.

If you have any questions put thoes in a comment as well & I will be sure to respond!

Thanks & have a good Thursday!

It's all in the eyes...

This weeks challenge is beautiful eyes.

This is a photograph I took in 2006. It was the first wedding I ever booked. The bride, Jessie, has the most amazing eyes. So I dug through my archives & found this image. I think it is perfect for this weeks challenge.

To see more creative photographs check out iheartfaces:

Funny Faces :)

I have been so excited to post these images. We took these at the end of the shoot & I think we were all pretty tired out from the heat. So we just plopped down in the grass & I told them to make faces at me :)

Ha ha ha ~ I thought it was pretty funny what they came up with!

The big one in the middle is my favorite - I can't look at it & not laugh!

The Ring...

No engagement session would be complete without a photograph to show off the ring right?

(in case you were wondering, the tootsie roll has to do with the proposal)

Thanks for taking a look!