Where's Wendy? Creating!!

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Everyone knows that I love being creative. I love post editing, and creating images with an edge. I love Dave Hill's work with that funky LucisArt effect that make his images appear very surreal. If you've never seen his work please click the link and check it out! Now I know that everyone cant afford the LucisArt program, it is a little pricy... however you can get a similar effect by making a few adjustments to your images. I do all my initial work flow in Lightroom, and sometimes I do a little creative stuff there too. By adjusting your recovery, fill light, vibrancy, clarity, and black sliders you can obtain a similar effect right there in Lightroom. There are some great tutorials over at the onOne University, and some great video's on Youtube. Also check out Scott Kelby's blog on the subject, he always explains things nicely, and I love the Photoshop guys!

Since most of my work is Portraiture it takes a little tweaking to get some of the images just right, but if you play with it long enough you'll come up with some very unique images. Some of them don't work out... so I scrap the idea and move onto the next photo. Some people think I spend too much time on post editing, however I find being digitally creative very relaxing and satisfying. This is not something that I do for my clients, it is something I do for myself after all client work is done, and uploaded for their viewing. However... if I think my client will like what I've created I show it to them, to see how they feel about it, but for the most part producing intense, dreamlike images is very gratifying to me, and may not be for everyone.

With thoughts of school running through my head, organizing files, and making sure everything is backed up for the year, I've spent some time this week going through my 2010 images, as well as others from several years ago. I've taken some of them and added different effects to achieve some cool results. Go ahead... read some tutorials, watch some videos and give it a try!


Love, Laughs, and Photographs,
Wendy

All images captured with the Olympus E500 on Lexar digital media.