Kylie Fall 2014

I think I really need to calibrate my screen.  I find that when I pull these pics up on my phone, they look different than on my computer screen.  The coloring looks slightly different.  I edited a pic of Kylie that looked good on my screen, but when I looked at it on my phone, her face had a green tint to it!

Teagan Snow White

Things I see I need to work on from this photo (I'm sure there's more than what I see): my focus is off. I think it landed on her lace headband by her ear.  The white blanket looks light blue.

Alyssa

I wish these had better backgrounds.  We put a little bit of make up on her and I suddenly had visions of her as a 16 yr old.  Yikes!  We could have brushed her hair too, but I take what I can get right now.  :)

White background

It seems to me I remember Rachelle saying white backgrounds are tricky.  Yeah, I'm not sure how I feel about how this turned out.  I used a grey card for the white balance.  Not sure if it's correct still. 

Close ups

I'm kind of obsessed with close ups.  I don't know why, but I think it's because I like being able to see where my focus is falling.  This was shot at an f/stop of 2.2 so only her one eye is in focus.  Whoops.  She's cute.  She was playing with her dollhouse that you can kind of see in the background.  I begged her to turn around and let me just take a few quick pictures of her.  Mostly just wanting to practice getting my exposure right and focus.  Like I said in the last post, soon I need to start working on good poses and composition.  Just taking what I can get from my kids at this point. :)

Another export test

I'm glad to see he doesn't have weird black spots in his eyes.  What WAS that with my last post of Kylie??  Here is my daily photo edit...I just kinda played around with stuff...little iris enhancement, clarity brush on his lashes, skin softening, did the luminance adjustment using that little target on his skin, sharpened the whole photo a little(35), and added a little vignette.  I'm kinda in to the vignetting, maybe because my backgrounds are lame and in my backyard or house and just need a little help. :)

Exporting test

YIKES!!!  Why is her eye all black?? I upped the Blacks too much??  It did not look like that in Lightroom!

Another cute hat pic

White Balance

I feel kinda lost with white balance.  I don't know what it's supposed to look like.  Sometimes I play around with it and I think it looks good, and then I compare it to a professional photographers photo and it's a pretty different color tone.  Is it something you just have to train your eye to learn what it's supposed to look like?  CAN you train your eye? 

 



9-17-14 Photoshoot with Teagan Part 2

Here are some cute faces, but definitely not a cute background.  So basically today's editing consisted of adjusting the white balance (basically just to what looks good to my naked eye, I have no idea if it's right.  I ordered a gray card so I'm excited to use that.  I also upped the exposure some, softened the skin, used an iris enhancement brush and lightened the whites of the eyes a little.  I used a vignette on these ugly background ones too.  I love having a little willing model, and I am having so much fun taking pictures of her.