Paul & Kelly II

Here's another. I should be able to finish this project (and other pending ones) after camp.

Paul & Kelly

My friend Paul and his soon-to-be wife. I managed to do a shoot with them before they continued on their engagement trip to meet and greet family and friends. I haven't gone through all the shots yet but here's one of my favorites so far.

Cat Food Lottery

It's dreadful but I've been too busy to shoot lately. On the other hand, it looks like somebody won the cat food lottery.


Note: Morgan actually took this picture. It just happened to be with my camera.

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!