The Figura Sisters

Today I headed to Spring Lake/Avon by the Sea to photograph beach portraits of my College/sorority friend and her 2 sisters.

I arrived around 9:30am (hoping the sun wouldn't be harsh) and found an area that was almost exactly what they were looking for in terms of a dune, dune grass, the little fence, etc. It was perfect!

When the Figura sisters arrived they liked the spot I found and we got right to business. We were done in under 2 hours. I was out of the house by 8:30 and home by 12:30 (with an hour drive included in the time both ways!)

These are straight out of the camera...no editing yet. That means no cropping, or any tweaking! So...these will look quite different after they pick their favs and I'm done with them!

(Yes, I have problems narrowing down...but then I said why narrow down??? Variety never hurt anyone! Here are a bunch I liked from our various pose ideas)

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By the way....I'm so aware of the crooked horizons...I'll be fixing them in post processing! :)

More to come after processing!

And the Experiments Continue

In continuation of this shoot...I experimented a couple more times with adding texture. You never know until you try things, right?

I like how they look but it's most important for me to see what the customer likes.




One more edit that I haven't shown yet...completely dodged out the background on this one. I'll probably experiment with textures on this photo as well tomorrow night. I need to download some more textures off of flickr to try with it though. I'd like a variety to present to the customer.



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Show Me the Texture

Thanks to a suggestion from Julie I added texture to this shot and I love the results!

I grabbed the first texture I saw and tried it out...now I'll be on the hunt for the perfect texture to try this a few different ways for the family to choose from.

I love yesterday's high key version but that's very time consuming to get right with dodging so texture is a nice option as well....makes it look like I had lots of backdrops!

I love S.'s expression in this one (she's in the middle)!

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3 Lovely Ladies

Aren't they the cutest Family???

I think so!

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H., S. & J. were great to work with!

This is one of my favorites from their shoot!

More to come!