Vintage Processing

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:

Previous posts of AMY can be seen HERE.
The entire gallery can be seen HERE.


More to come from this shoot!

More BLUE DOOR Shots

Hey Jen. I hope you love these!

(Jen loved the blue door during this photoshoot and was excited to see them edited) :)

Prior posts from: Psychiatric Sundays Photo Series

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The BLUE DOOR!

Especially for you Jen... The Blue Door! Hopefully more to come soon!

Prior posts from: Psychiatric Sundays Photo Series

Lighting Effects!

Thanks Mike! Your suggestion to add a lighting effect to the lamp from to this photo in the Psychiatric Sundays Photo Series was a great one (and made this photo much more fun)! It was completely missing something before and now I love it!!!

I used KNOLL LIGHT FACTORY software for the lighting effect.

(click to view each of these in extra large size so you can see the lighting effect)








And lastly...my favorite of the 3 shots.

Hmmm, does this have a Dave Hill lighting look to you?

In the Spotlight

I hope you're not getting tired of this series. I'm almost done!

A couple funny ones that I worked on tonight...

We found this random light lying around the psychiatric hosptail grounds and Jen decided to put Brittany "in the spotlight" :)



The wind picked up and the girls got into it LOL!



Do you know what grabbed me with this one? The shadow of the creepy tree to the right! The tonemapping really brought out the colors of the brick.

Just Stunning! Which Appeals To You Most?

More of Psychiatric Sundays Series

I'm into such a variety of photography and I'm lucky that once in a while I get some friends are willing to do a fun photo shoot like this.

*Jen, sorry it's taking me so long but sometimes when I have a large series like this and I have other "photo ops" in between I like to do a little bit of one shoot and then switch to another for variety. I'm almost done at this point! I know how badly you want me to get to the BLUE DOOR shots! :) I hope you love what you've been seeing so far!

Back to the photos....

I'm trying NOT to do so many different edits of the same photo. I've talked about this in prior posts....it's a hard thing for me to do.

Sometimes I find it hard to decide the one edit in my mind and just do it so I end up trying multiple edits. But there's only so much time in my day after working full time, coming home and taking care of "things," that I get to sit down, check my favorite blogs, the forum, and my e-mail before I get to start edit...so I need to learn how to decide in my head what will work and go from there. I'm sure eventually I will get better at it (or at least that's what I keep telling myself!)

I've been getting better at it but when I got to this shot I spent a lot of time on the color edit getting it just right and then I decided I loved the shot so much that it really deserved a variety of edits to find the best one.

Based on what you've seen of the Psychiatric Sundays series over the past few weeks - what edit of this photo really "moves" you? Think about the setting, the tone of the shoot, and the expression here and let me know what you think.

(PLEASE CLICK ON EACH ONE TO VIEW IN A LARGE SIZE)

Original - tweaked

Techinicolor Dream World & Joey L's Edgy Emboss

Lomo Cross Processing

Joey L's Night Action and Joey L's Night Action

Bitchin B&W Action with Joey L's Edgy Emboss Action

Lomo Cross Processed Action with Bitchin B&W Action

A couple other shots that I had time to work on tonight.

I love how the lights & shadows are in this one AND the vignette & blur action really worked well with this!

If you're interested in hearing some great music check out Jen's Myspace Music Page.

The Girls of The "Sundays" Series

In between everything else I work on the "Psychiatric Sundays Series."

These are my favorite edit's of tonights post-processed shots. I'm moving along with all of the photos/editing.

There are some great shots coming soon in the series that I can't wait to edit from another part of the psychiatic compound of buildings. Just wait and see!

Joey L's Night Action



With Texture...my latest addiction





Lomo Cross Processing Action





Lomo Editorial Action

Kubota & Boutwell's Actions - Samples of What They Can Do

I might not have picked the best sample photo to try these actions out on to make a sample gallery but I may re-do the samples at another date to show you what they can do for you.

For now here at the samples I have:

Boutwells Totally Rad Actions Samples:

Totally Rad - Daily Grind

Totally Rad - Caffeine Jolt

Totally Rad Color Blind

Kubota Actions

Kubota Artistic Tools Vol 3

ALSO:

Towards the end of this ealier blog post of mine there are his samples of the actions posted on another photographer's blog so take a look there as well if you're interested click the link below:

http://jenweaverphotography.blogspot.com/2007/11/burning-dodging.html

Burning & Dodging ... Some Other Favs ... Kubota & Boutwells Actions ...Other News

I've been considering purchasing some Photoshop actions. I've been reading and reading and I keep coming up with the same suggestions:
Boutwell's Actions: http://boutwellstudio.com/totallyrad/
Kubota's Actions: http://www.kubotaimagetools.com/actions.html.

EDITED THIS POST: 2/25/08
I got the Boutwells & Kubota Actions!

Here is a blog post I wrote recently where I posted links to my samples of the actions:

http://jenweaverphotography.blogspot.com/2008/02/kubota-boutwells-actions-samples-of.html


I found a blog that has a lot of examples on these actions - "Becker's Blog" http://beckersblog.com/

Here are Becker's examples on Kubota Actions: http://homepage.mac.com/thebecker/iblog/B533212817/C1640960333/E20060125154844/index.html

And here are Becker's examples of the Boutwell's Totally Rad Actions:
http://beckersblog.com/index.cfm?q=sotc&x=1&y=1




Had some time tonight to do a little of what I enjoy most...having time to really work on editing a photo in Photoshop.




Another 3 favorite from tonight's editing:







Also....just need to share how nerdy I am. I asked my husband to take this photo of me tonight. It's me holding up money from my very first paying portait shoot! I was so happy and excited about it that I had to have a photo of the moment.

I know, I know...by now you think I'm a complete loser but I just like to categorize myself as being "unique" LOL!

Being a photographer I think of capturing special moments through photos to chronicle them.