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The Light Workshop|Boise natural light photographer

August 18, 2010

On my ongoing quest to become a better photographer, I’m always on the lookout for classes, workshops, and personal challenges.  In September I’ll be attending AfterDark in Portland for a 3 day hands-on round-the-clock workshop with over 30 fabulous mentors.  I’m so excited about it!

The next workshop on my list is The Light Workshop, which I actually don’t have to leave home to attend.  It’s an online class focused on learning how to see and use natural light to create beautiful images.  If you’re looking for a wonderful online workshop, check out Detra’s blog for more information!

Here’s my shot a practicing finding and using natural light.  I took this at the edge of a parking lot just as the sun was going down.  The fake smile was the result of begging any one of my four children to please just stand in the weeds for a few seconds so that I could get the shot.  Here’s the poor child who caved to my pressure.  :)

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It’s about simplifying! | Boise lifestyle photographer

April 12, 2010

For the past six months or so I’ve been trying to keep three blogs updated and I’ve failed miserably. So I decided to SIMPLIFY and I’ve combined my business blog with my personal blog.

My new flash site can be found HERE. It’ll link to this here blog from now on.

Bookmark me! :)

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Sneak Peek: C Family

November 7, 2009

What a genuinely sweet and sincere family I had the pleasure of shooting today.

They have spent hours upon hours working together at this orchard over the years.

What an apropos spot to get some portraits taken.

We were thrilled to see there were still some leaves hanging onto the branches this late in the fall.

Thanks for listening to my lame jokes this afternoon.  I promise to collect some new ones soon.

Enjoy your sneak peek!

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Sneak Peek: S & J

November 6, 2009

After keeping my eye on the fickle weather today as it rained on and off with gusts of wind here and there, I wasn’t so sure this shoot was going to happen.

Luckily, we ventured out and managed to avoid getting wet.

These two were awesome!  I only had to mention McSteamy and gorgeous Miss S would swoon just a little.  And the mention of Mr. J’s fine punting skills elicited some great smiles.

Thanks for trekking through dirt and cornfields and sand with me this afternoon.

Enjoy your sneak peek!!!

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fix-it friday

November 6, 2009

FacesFixIt

Before:

girl in pink

My workflow in CS4:

1.  Duplicated the image

2.  Color corrected using curves

3.  Levels adjustment to add contrast

4.  Using the patch tool to remove spot on cheek

5. Bumped up the exposure using a curves layer

6. Bumped up saturation and masked back the face

7.  hi-passed the eyes

8. Added Blue Lily’s sweet water action masking back here and there for variety

9.  Brightened eyes with an inverted curves layer just on the eyes

10.  Rotated 90% and flipped vertically

11.  Cropped to 5×7

12.  Noiseware at 40%

13.  Sharpened for web

A great picture to begin with if just a little under exposed.

My edit:

girl-in-pink-edited

And my black and white conversion with a touch of pink:

girl-in-pink-copy-3-bw

Head on over to iheartfaces to see more editing magic.

Happy Friday!

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