BTW---I'm thinking of submitting this (and some others) to the Gap Casting call!! Whatcha think? Are my kids cute enough, I think so but then again I may be a bit biased!
9.14.2009
Before and After
I have been getting a lot of e-mails and questions about photography lately, which I find HILARIOUS because I only pretend to know what I am doing. I have taken classes and read numerous books on photography so I can kinda play like I know what I am talking about. One of the many questions I get is "What kind of editing do you do to your pictures?" There was a time, and if you go way back in my archives, you will find i did a lot of editing to my pictures, trying to make my pictures look better, I was never happy even after all of the fiddling I did with photoshop. It wasn't until I found out how to capture my images correctly "in camera" that I began to see the results I wanted. In the following image you will see my sooc (straight out of camera) image with a little bit of sharpening for web on the left and the edited image on the right. Now what exactly did I do to this image? I always start off with a defog (just a "pre-sharpen") then I just did a bit of a boost in the contrast and color balance to fix the redness in Sam's skin, and I bit of sharpening on the eyes to give them some sparkle then I just resized and sharpened for web. It took me all of about 1 min to edit and I am really happy with the results. Now this is my process for most of my pictures here on the blog, OR LESS (my mother of all posts a few posts down was all pretty much sooc) Now for my clients I do a bit more like skin smoothing and adding a vignette or maybe some fancy schmancy vintage action!
BTW---I'm thinking of submitting this (and some others) to the Gap Casting call!! Whatcha think? Are my kids cute enough, I think so but then again I may be a bit biased!
BTW---I'm thinking of submitting this (and some others) to the Gap Casting call!! Whatcha think? Are my kids cute enough, I think so but then again I may be a bit biased!
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6 comments:
Your kids are absolutely, positively cute enough! And your photography is definitely fantastic enough too! It's fun to see the before and after.
First of all, your kids are SO BEAUTIFUL. They'd be perfect for the Gap! Also, do you read The Pigbear (http://erincobb.com/ThePigBear/)? Erin entered photos of her little girl, Sarah, a few years back and won! I'm sure she could give you some advice. Good luck!
you really are good. my pet peeve is when people over-do the sparkling eyes.
You know she could! SO MANY people have told you so, including scouts in the mall every time you walked past them! DO IT!
You were talking about me when you wrote this post, weren't you? :) I have made my personal goal to actually learn how to use my camera now. And, BTW, yes, she's cute enough to be in a Gap ad!
Cute Kristin. She could definitely be in a magazine!
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