Today was an exciting day for me! I got to shoot some people! With my camera is what I meant. I woke up early thinking I would start shooting around 10. That was a bad Idea..ish.. I felt great getting up I mean I had energy and stuff. So that’s not all that bad. I waited for Sam to tell me when she was ready to shoot. She text me right at ten like she said she would. “does 2-o-clock work for you?” poop. I had thought, I mean it worked for me; I was just up wit nothing to do, and nothing to read. Great. After twiddling my thumbs for two hours I headed up to the library to take back the harry potter book and get the next one, as well as check my facebook and see about more bookings. I was hoping the shot wouldn’t take long; I wanted to attend Tyler Geohagan’s graduation from OBU, which was at 6. Plenty of time I thought. So at like 1:40 Jacklyn, a girl whom I had been trying to get a hold of to see if could ride with to the graduation, came into the library. Asked me if I was ready to go. Completely taken off guard I shut my laptop and said yeah. Then the time had hit me. Turns out Tyler’s graduation wasn’t at 6 it was at 3. And I had booked up to that point with Sam, poop. So I missed Tyler’s Graduation, lame. I headed over to Sam’s smacking myself for being so forgetful. Tyler had told me Three I just simply forgot. I arrived at Sam’s right at 2. When I met her son, I was a little disappointed, I thought he would be younger, he is about to turn 2 if I’m not mistaken, I thought he was more like 5 months from the way I had heard him described. Either way I was still going to do the same shot. Jackson, the baby, had a different plan though. Sam and I tried to calm him down and get him to sit still, but it was no use. We took him outside to maybe at least get some of him smiling or something, but with the spotty clouds and him running away from me I just have a lot of out of focus and awkward shots, sorry Sam. But I still had Sam to take pictures of. So I went to an alley with a couple spots. And got this shot. After editing I brought out the eyes a bit more, used the spot healing brush to smooth the skin out, also cropped it vertical to add a visual thinness to her. Finally I added some tonal evenness with the colors.
Next I got this, same location and a bit more aggressive of a pose. Again not much editing to these, all one layer no fancy tricks, just bringing out the eyes, and spot brushing it. I did crop it so that her face was the center point not the body.
This final shot was a bit more. I debated with myself for a long time as to whether or not keep the blade of grass that is shown on the left. I thought it added some visual line that kept the viewer aware of the curve of her body, which normally I would take out, but with Sam it seemed to have worked this time. So I kept it. Then the magic of tones, and spot healing brush, had to remove some hair that was caught in the wind across her face but you can’t even tell. Thank you clone stamp tool.
And finally i’d like to introduce my new logo. If you look back at the photo’s they now have them in the bottom corner. Used two pretty good fonts one more well known than they other. Gil sans is used in the word “photography” a nice san serif . and Walbaum for the KB part. They worked exceedingly well together as far as I’m concerned. And that’s a wrap.
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