Ok, in the spirit of photoshop Friday’s I’m going to introduce The Tube Tuesdays, a day for all things youtube, because…well there is a lot of cool stuff on youtube.
So I liked Liza off the bat, we hadn’t even spoken yet, just e-mailed but I knew I liked her. She was so real and in one of her e-mails she just gushed about her fiance Mark and how he just published a book on Cameron Park in Waco, TX and how proud she was of him. I loved that, she was was just beaming about her man and I knew that our shoot was going to turn out well. After I had the honor of meeting and photographing them they did not disappoint, they were kind, funny, laid back, and most importantly..madly in love.
We went to beautiful Cameron Park for some photo’s and then over to Baylor’s gorgeous campus since they are both proud alum. It was a wonderful day and I can’t wait to photograph their wedding in June! (Along with Liza’s amazing sister Lindsey…two sister’s weddings in the same month, so fun!)
Ok, so I started, and I failed…but I’m not giving up. So photoshop Friday this week will be Saturday. Now last time I went ahead and properly embarassed myself right out of the gate, so I thought I would show what a normal photo looks like instead of picking a photo that I totally screwed up :) So here we go!
The above photo is SOOC. What SOOC means is Straight Out of Camera. (Photographers know this, it’s standard speak like e-session and uncle bob.) So, the above photo has not been touched by photoshop other than to resize.. I actually didn’t even sharpen it for the web, nothing. Now it’s not perfect, but it’s a good example of what a lot of my photo’s look like when I take them. I like it, I love her expression (this is my amazing niece Brooklyn and this photo is totally “her” which I adore) But I like lots of color, if you’ve looked at my website you know that. So what I did was shapen it, play with the curves a little bit, and did a basic color pop and below is the results. It’s suddle but just gives the photo a little extra “oomph”. Any photographer worth their salt will tell you that if you want a great photo, you need to start with a great photo. Not that you can’t do some amazing things in photoshop but if you’re having to rescue the majorty of your photo’s like I posted in the last photoshop friday post then you’re not quite ready to be a photographer yet. (And trust me, I was SO there… it took a lot of time and practice before I was getting consistent photo’s SOOC)
