Before and After Edit

Hello world! This would be my first time sharing a before and after edit and I am pretty excited! I am pretty new to photoshop. I have been using Adobe Lightroom (which is totally awesome and a MUST HAVE) and Corel Paint Shop Pro X & X4.

In Lightroom, I cropped my image,  I reduced the noise, and cloned out the food residue on his face. I then transferred my image over to photoshop and duplicated my image. From there I used the patch tool for under his eyes. I dodged and burned his eyes to make them pop. I burned his lips and also the grass behind him. I added a selective color mask to my image {REDS> cyan +70%, magenta +8% , yellow -13%, and black -20%)

I am not the greatest at writing a tutorial and if you don't know how to use photoshop I encourage you to try!

Low Key Lighting.

Lately I've been fascinated by low key photography. The low lighting is so gorgeous on a subject.While I typically shoot with 2-3 lights in my studio, for my first low key shoot I used just one main light. My son is my wonderful model in the photos below.

We did his session around 7pm. I have a very large bay window in my studio that lets in a lot of light. I wanted to wait until it was pretty dark outside so my studio wouldn't be as bright. 

I love the shadows low key shows.

Valentine's Day Cards

Hello again!

  I am not sure if you are aware, but I am addicted to Pinterest! For my stepdaughters class this year we decided that we were going to make our own Valentine's cards for her classroom. Yesterday was a perfect day to take pictures outdoors as it was snowing outside. Here is what I did for her.

 

I took her outside and picked out a pose for her to do.

I love how you can see in the photo that it was still snowing outside.

 

Later in the evening I started editing.

 

I edit all of my images in Lightroom 3.

I brightened the exposure, cropped, and cloned out the pool and deck in the background.

 

After I have my photo looking to my taste I did my final edit in Corel Paintshop ProX4

 

 

 

  She absolutely loves the cards that she will be handing out this year. I printed them out in wallet size which is perfect for Valentine cards to hand out. I think that I saw some little envelopes at Target that I'm going to pick up tomorrow. We are going to add the Sweetart lollipops to her cards too. I can't wait to hear how her class likes them

 

 

On my next post, I will be sharing what my son and I made for his classroom!