I love how these photos of Amy came out with the Vintage processing.
I toned the opacity down quite a bit to get them to look like this:
I also love how this one turned out:
I'm usually the queen of actions and trying various effects and techniques but for this session I keep gravitating towards COLOR for most of them (and maybe a B&W here or there). I can't help it - the color just pops - and that's what I'm looking for!
All I can says is - didn't I luck out with such a great model?
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I love the color version above but I also like this "dark B&W" by Itty Bitty Actions:
Previous posts of AMY can be seen HERE.
The entire gallery can be seen HERE.
There will be lots and lots more to come...just doing a little at a time from each of my recent shoots...so much to process...so little time! I guess I'll sleep when I'm dead! LOL!
I'm finally finding friends willing to pose for me! Today Amy and I went to (crowded) Roosevelt Park in Edison, NJ. The weather predicted rain but instead we had a beautiful day in the 60's.
I experimented a lot during this shoot with settings, exposure, using the flash outdoors, etc...all so I can improve. I shot the entire day on Aperture Prioroty mode.
Despite the people that constantly decided to walk right in the middle of our photos we found some great areas to take photos at this park. I'm sure I'll be using this park again sometime in the future.
Thanks for a great shoot! I had a lot of fun! Let me know when you're up for it again! LOL!
Here is one photo that really stood out to me:
Good news! I forgot to mention that I made my first official sale off my website that generated me an actual profit (I've made other sales on my smugmug site but they were at wholesale cost to friends...no profit).
The sale was to the lovely mother of my lovely friend Tiffany. Her mother purchased the Andrzej Dragan style photos of Tiffany's 2 sons to hang in their bedroom!
The 4 Dragan Effect Style photos can be seen in this blog post from a while back. More Dragan effect information and a tutorial can be found on there as well.
Yay! An actual sale of my work!! It worth all of the time spent on the Photoshop post-processing on those photos!
I will be sure to snap pictures of the photos (mounted in frames on the wall of their room) once they are hung so I can share them here on my blog.
So exciting!
More of my Dragan Style photos can be seen in this gallery: http://www.jenweaverphotography.com/gallery/3907308_QE5cy/1/236338979_e3adt
Last night I took some fun photos of the kids after portraits and when I got home I tried this technique called the Dragan Effect named after a famous photographer Andrzej Dragan. Check out his work HERE.
Last night's creation:
Then I spent tonight making these:
I think this one is the best of the night:
Oh...and one more I just finished:
These two boys provide me THE BEST poses/faces for this kind of work!
Here is a great DRAGAN EFFECT tutorial that was recommended to me. It's very in depth and does a good job explaining "how to" step by step:
DRAGAN EFFECT PHOTOSHOP TUTORIAL - The best free videos are right here
If you find this tutorial helpful please leave me a comment below. :)
My friend asked me to take some photos of her and her 2 sons because her mother wanted to use them as Christmas cards so I went there tonight and shot some quick photos for them aroud the house.
I'm excited that my website host started offering holiday cards for customers.
This is probably the "keeper" shot ... they just have to finalize the card type our of the 36 varieties.
I like this one too...
I liked how this one came out as well:
And I couldn't resist this one of my friend:
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