A couple more from our shoot on Sunday. Yes, I realize I’m breaking my own rule, but it’s late and I need to get to bed.
In this one her face is lit by sun filtered through the trees. That’s it.
In the shade with ambient light and flash through white umbrella about 45 degrees camera right.
Holy cow. Just twenty days to go.
I met this young woman in June at my nephew and his girlfriend’s baby shower. We spoke at the time of doing a photography session, and it finally came to pass today. I don’t think the temperature got above forty during our morning session. Chilly!!! Here’s a sneak peek. I’ll post more later.
Just messing around today, in between loads of laundry. . .
I did a family photo shoot yesterday. I need the practice, they need the portraits, so it all works out. The two little girls are 17 months and 3 years old. While I could talk to the three-year-old, the seventeen-month-old had her own priorities. It was a lot of fun, and I hope that the family will be happy with some of the shots. PS – I learned a lot yesterday.
Here are a few that made the final cut.
I got my numbers mixed up. I put up the wrong “favorite” photo the other day from Rita and Richard’s photo shoot.
THIS is the second one they liked.
Seriously, aren’t they adorable?
I couldn’t figure out how to use the selective color feature in Photoshop, so instead I added a black and white layer and erased part of the layer to leave just the pink of my t-shirt. A few more tweaks and voila! I’ve had this t-shirt since our local Planned Parenthood was working with the state legislature in an attempt to standardize sex education across the state. Unfortunately, the measure did not pass and we continue to have a patchwork of curricula that vary drastically from county to county.
Another shot…Black and White conversion in Photoshop with some tweaking in Nik Color Efex Pro. I’m having entirely too much fun with this software!
A friend of mine asked me to do some portraits of her and her husband. We did the photo shoot today. Next weekend I’ll be shooting a young family. I’m quite nervous about it!
Maya helped me test out my set-up.
As for the portraits? About twenty photos made the final cut from which they chose six they liked best. This one was their fave:
And they liked this one too.
FYI – – – I messed up and thought the photo above was one of Rita and Richard’s faves. I got my file names mixed up. The correct photo is this one.
Wow! Day 300! Just 66 days to go.
About today’s shot. Maralee finally convinced me to try out the NIK software (Color Efex Pro 4) and this is my first experiment with it. I wanted a shot with window light, so I set up a stool by the front door and started shooting. This was shot with my 85mm at 200 ISO, f/3.5, 1/500. Took it into NIK and utilized the Dynamic Skin Softener filter. The difference between the before and after shots is subtle, but I like how it gently smoothed my skin tone without making me look fake.
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After NIK.
Original shot before NIK
Carissa Snedeker Photography 