As I’ve been filling up the calendar with sessions for October, I’ve had a few people ask about what they should wear.  My recommendations are pretty simple:

• Comfort
• Casual
• Please, NO matchy-matchy, ‘lets-all-wear-the-same-white-sweater-and-blue-jeans’ outfits

It’s pretty simple to pull together coordinating clothes for the whole family that don’t match exactly but that go together well.

To help you out and give you some ideas, I’ve decided to post some suggestions on the blog every Wednesday.

I’ve still got some slots open in October and November for my free fall sessions.  Email me if you are interested.  I’d love to take your portraits!!!

This one just happens to be home with me all the time.

Today we scouted out some local parks looking for possible portrait locations.

And had some down-time at home…

(I know.  He changes outfits several times throughout the day.  The laundry is never-ending)

Look for my first “official” photography promotion the first of October…

Quite a challenge this week!

This little guy was extremely underexposed.  This happens to me all the time, especially when I forget to check my settings when moving from outside to indoors. Color fixing is tough when something is this underexposed.  But I did my best.

Here are my plays:

In CS4 I opened a curves adjustment layer.  I touched the white eye dropper tool on the white stripe on his t-shirt.  And the black eye dropped sampled his eyeball.

Then I sampled 4 spots on his skin and did some color adjustments in curves until he read and looked better.

Tweaked colors in color balance adjustment level

Adjusted contrast with curves

Filtered for noise reduction until it looked smoother

‘Color’ edit I used MZ XP colorful action

‘B&W’ edit I used The Secret Actions Black and White complex and pretty

‘Flare’ edit I used two different flare textures from Patti Brown’s Kaleidoscope collection

That’s it!

To see more edits, head on over to iheartfaces.

Have a fantastic weekend!