Where's Wendy: portriats

Saturday, January 8, 2011

Where's Wendy? Creating!!

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.

Saturday, November 13, 2010

Where's Wendy? Getting Ready for the Holidays!

A few months ago I posted information about Holiday Portraits, and here we are just a week and half away from Thanksgiving! Time does fly when you're caught up in life! This time of year, photographers are busy, and printing companies are even busier! However, now that we are down to the wire I have had several phone calls for Holiday Portraits! That is just how life works these days... everyone lives on last minute decisions.

Our printing companies (yes we use different ones for different projects), are working overtime and weekends to get all your portraits done in time for the Holidays. They are even working Sundays and late into the night! Be warned though... anything ordered after December 18th will not get to you in time for Christmas, and even that is cutting it close. Remember there is a process that your images go through when I capture them... Every image I create is inspected, sharpened, and sometimes processed before it goes off to the printer. The busier I get the longer it may take to make your photo's perfect! Also keep in mind... I'm not the only photographer who uses these printers... they have thousands of customers to make happy this time of year!

This is just a reminder that my cut off date for Holiday Portraits is December 13th. Not that I wont still create portraits for the holidays, just that you most likely wont get them in time to share on the 25th! So if it's important that you have them before the 25th, get on the phone... get me an email... or send me a message through Facebook, Twitter, Myspace, etc. I would like to make your Holidays special!

Happy Holidays Everyone!

Love, Laughs, and Photographs,

Wendy

All images captured with the Olympus E500 on Lexar digital media. All post editing is done with Photoshop CS4, Lightroom 2, using Onone and Topaz adjust plugins. New background papers compliments of Ashe Design.