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A Hard Rain’s a-Gonna Fall, Nacogoches TX Well this is pretty much the oppesite of a glamour shoot! We had a very strong storm pass through Texas yesterday and as far as I know we were lucky that there weren’t any major incidents. We were planning for the storm all day and it ended up not hitting us too hard. I was standing in the carport, watching a wave of rain come through and it hit me that I needed to practice my rain shots in case it’s ever raining on a wedding day. So I set up a couple of speedlites on stands, just as I would at a wedding, and begged Nini to go out and pose in the rain. The only catch was that we could only find one umbrella! And I needed it to prevent my lens from getting drops all over it! So Nini had to actually pose in the rain. She was not happy about it, but her attitude fit perfectly with the lighting I created. I processed this photo in Lightroom 4 and Photoshop CS6. In CS6 I used a batch of actions that I recently purchased from www.florabellacollection.com I was really impressed by the actions and have learned a lot about photoshop by going through and dissecting their actions and seeing all kinds of new tricks I never knew how to do before. Exciting! Trivia question: Where’d I get the title for this post? Don’t google it! Critiques are always welcome. Daily photo: May 22, 2013, taken May 21, 2013
Glamourous Fashion Experience, Nacogdoches TX This time my beautiful wife Nini is posing in the home studio (spare bedroom). I tried to replicate the natural outdoor lighting that we got earlier in the shoot. I used a giant four foot softbox to create a very soft light source. The strobe was just above Nini’s head height, and was positioned directly behind me while I was shooting just below eye level. You can see my silhouette in the catchlight in her eye. I processed this photo using Lightroom 4, Photoshop CS6. The light leak and vignette were created in Exposure 4, by Alienskin. I’m two days in to a free Alienskin trial and I’m a sucker for light leaks! Thanks for all of your suggestions on what to call these beauty makeover photo sessions. I’m still toying with various phrases. UPDATE: Thanks for your question Terry. The inspiration for all of my modern beauty makeover shoots is the one and only Sue Bryce. She's won a ton of international awards, including most influential at this year's WPPI. See her head cropping style at www.suebryce.com Critiques are always welcome. Daily photo: May 21, 2013, taken May 10, 2013
Nini’s Glamour, Nacogdoches TX This is the final product from Nini’s modern beauty makeover shoot on the day she got the call from Montana State. Yes, we celebrate good news with a photoshoot! I shared the before and after version a couple of days ago, and mentioned that I would use it to market this style of shoot. But what should I call this shoot? Sue Bryce calls this style “glamour.” But she’s from New Zealand and maybe hasn’t noticed how bad of a name “glamour shots” have in the US. So if not a glamour portrait, what would you call it? I’ve been calling it “modern beauty makeover,” but I’d love to hear other suggestions. This photo was shot with only natural light and I did the retouching in Photoshop using Sue’s two minute rule. But of course the retouching actually took me 10 minutes instead of two. I’ll get my time down eventually! I've shot two weddings in the last two days! I'm wiped! Critiques are always welcome. Daily photo: May 19, 2013, taken May 10, 2013
Nini’s Modern Beauty Makeover, Nacogdoches TX A before and after shot of my beautiful wife Nini, who has recently accepted a job at the Montana State University! We celebrated the good news with a “modern beauty makeover” photoshoot. Montana State is in Billings Montana and we’ll be moving in July. I could not be more excited! We have enjoyed our year in Texas, but I have always hoped of moving to Montana (as a close second only behind Nebraska). Big Sky country has two of my favorite national parks, Glacier and Yellowstone, and the Grand Tetons are just around the corner. It is a landscape photographer’s paradise! While Nini will be starting a new chapter in her career, I’ll be starting a new career altogether, as a photographer doing shoots just like this modern beauty makeover shoot and weddings. I can’t wait! This before and after photo is an important piece of marketing for my new business. It is inspired by Sue Bryce’s before and after marketing that she trained us to make in her 28 Days challenge on creativeLIVE. The goal of that workshop is to train a new photographer to shoot Sue’s modern glamour style in 28 days. Well I’ve been following Sue for a lot longer than 28 days and have yet to master her style, but I’m getting there! Both shots were taken using natural light. Critiques are always welcome. Daily photo: May 15, 2013, taken May 10, 2013
Under the Bridge, Nacogdoches TX Nini and I have big news but I’m not able to say anything about it until Monday. But, in celebration, she had her hair and makeup done at Julia’s Salon, and we went for a photoshoot. I have seen several local photographer shooting at this location before and figured we should try it out. I’m glad we did! We only spent about 10 minutes there but it was fun lifting Nini up into place. I did some wacky processing on this photo! I expanded the concrete frame around the outside of the photo so that I could make a better crop and there wouldn’t be distracting dirt and rocks in the frame below. The powers of photoshop are amazing. Critiques are always welcome. Daily photo: May 12, 2013, taken May 10, 2013
Beautiful in Black and White, Nacogdoches TX Nini is away and I miss her! This is one of my favorite photos from our anniversary shoot and I made this black and white version before but never shared it. So here it is! My favorite photo from the shoot is still this full body beauty on the bricks. I’m a sucker for the wider portraits! I really like the shadows created by using only one light. Click here for more info on my lighting technique. I processed this photo in Photoshop CS6, which I’ve owned for about a week and a half now. I followed Sue Bryce’s retouching techniques from her 28 Days challenge. Sue gave us over an hour of retouching instruction on one of the recent challenges and it is truly awesome to see her retouch photo after photo spending only two minutes on each. She is so fast and uses only a few Photoshop tools over and over again. She makes it look easy, but it’s not! This photo was supposed to be retouched in two minutes, but it took more like an hour. Hopefully I can get my time down as I get used to the tools in Photoshop. I spent a lot of time over doing it and then trying to back track, when I should have just done it right the first time. But practice makes perfect. Critiques are always welcome. Daily photo: April 27, 2013, taken February 9, 2013
Beautiful in Black, Nacogdoches TX She’s an angel but she looks amazing in black! We love looking through all of our old photos and occasionally picking out a new one to process. There are still a lot of unprocessed photos from our anniversary shoot and I am slowly working through them. My favorite photo from the shoot is still this full body beauty on the bricks. I’m a sucker for the wider portraits! I really like the shadows created by using only one light. Click here for more info on my lighting technique. I processed this photo in Photoshop CS6, which I’ve owned for about a week and a half now. I followed Sue Bryce’s retouching techniques from her 28 Days challenge. Sue gave us over an hour of retouching instruction on one of the recent challenges and it is truly awesome to see her retouch photo after photo spending only two minutes on each. She is so fast and uses only a few Photoshop tools over and over again. She makes it look easy, but it’s not! This photo was supposed to be retouched in two minutes, but it took more like an hour. Hopefully I can get my time down as I get used to the tools in Photoshop. I spent a lot of time over doing it and then trying to back track, when I should have just done it right the first time. But practice makes perfect. CreativeLIVE is LIVE and FREE all day with Ben Wilmore’s Photoshop Fundamentals in case you missed my note in the Smugmug Daily group on Facebook. You can join the group here. Critiques are always welcome. Daily photo: April 2, 2013, taken February 9, 2013
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