Missy and Lou III

Here are a couple with sort of a vintage flair about them.

Missy and Lou II

I always try to have a good time while on shoot.

Here we are at the playground.

Climbing trees.

Missy and Lou

So it seems that a common theme in my life is to jump in and help people out with bridal/engagement/wedding pictures when they're in a pinch. Actually, I don't mind because this allows me the chance to play around with portrait photography without all the hassle of trying to make money at it.

Here's a few highlights from our 2 hours and over 450 shots.

Working With Layers

Here's some fun playing with images and layering.

Here's an image (I know, it's a flower) that hasn't been altered in any way (yet).



Brightness is also bumped up a little and a filter called "soft glow" is applied to the image.


Now, this step is complicated. The original image is taken and converted to gray scale (or black and white). The gray scale image is inverted to make a negative. Finally it is colorized to a monochromatic blue.


The blue image is layered over the first. Here I used a layer tool on the blue layer called "grain extract" and set the layer to 50% opacity. This brings out the shadows and sort of gives it a hard lighting effect.


Enjoy!

The View From the Top

Here's a look down from the top (all 630 feet) of the St. Louis arch from our recent (this week) trip up there. More to come as time allows.

A Couple More...

More of the same, enjoy!

The Joy of Being Close Up

So I've been shooting flowers with the macro lens again. I stand by my previous statement that they make good subject matter as they do not move around too much like pets and small children.




Here's what my setup looked like from the outside for those of you playing the home game. I setup a pair of hot lights and (in this case) positioned them to provide hard directional light to add shadows and fine details.



After a little bit of processing and playing around with the images, here's one of the finished products.