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I just got word that my engagement session with Jaime & Mark was featured over at The Wedding Lady Blog today. Some other great photographers featured on there as well, including my very talented friend, Amy DeYoung.
Congratulations Jaime & Mark – you two are ‘so hot right now’!
Doing my own printing in the studio gives me a great deal of control over the end results of my work. I have the opportunity to print on a variety of media that I wouldn’t otherwise have access to, which play such an important role in the look of the finished print. There’s also a great feeling of connectedness with my work as I watch it [magically] come out of the printer, inch by inch, as I hand-finish my canvas prints, and finally, carefully package everything…
Every once in a while I get a request to do some prints for fellow photographers who appreciate the care that goes into what I do and the level of quality that results. I was contacted by Stephen Bonnau in Michigan to help him create some fine art prints for an exhibition he was putting together. They came out absolutely amazing, and I just wanted to share his work. Below are a few of the beautiful photographs I printed for Stephen – enjoy!
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I’m in the process of doing yet another pass at editing the full set of images from a recent wedding, as I prepare to create the album. This must be the fifth or sixth pass I’ve made, and each time I find that I see some of the images a different way or find things that could use some tweaking. While the actual process of shooting engagements, bridals, and a wedding may take 12-18 hours, there is so much more that goes on besides just capturing the image. To illustrate this, I just thought I’d post an image that I just spent a good 2-3 hours editing to show a before and after. There’s actually an in-between as well, more of a quickie-edit to get it in the general direction which I’d previously blogged.
Straight from the camera. Looks pretty blah straight from the camera, doesn’t it? Not the beautiful sunrise we’d hoped for, but I exposed this to retain detail in the highlights of the image, and you’ll see that clearly in the final edit. As for the composition, I shot a lot of close-ups during the shoot but I needed to capture some great, wide, landscape shots. After all, when you’re shooting an engagement session in Oahu, Hawaii (or doing wedding photography in Hawaii, for that matter) you’ve GOT to show the environment. Otherwise what was the point of going somewhere exotic, right?
Quick edit for blog. In hindsight, I made this edit appear a bit too ‘cool’ (that’s blue in photographer-speak). When doing the initial passes on images, it just doesn’t make sense to spend an insane amount of time on an image as it may not make the cut to begin with, so here you have it.
After 2-3 hours of editing this one image. I’ve gotten pretty much exactly what I saw in my mind when I captured that plain looking thing you saw straight from the camera. So what do you think? Worth all the extra effort? (I think so!)
