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Lightroom Preset and Photoshop Action Recipe for High Texture Photographs

Alright serious and aspiring photographers, today we're getting down to the nitty gritty details of using Lightroom presets and Photoshop actions to create highly texturized images. After returning from WPPI (Wedding and Portrait Photographers International) convention this year, I was struck again by how highly valued and esteemed the images were that were composites with muted colors, highly … [Read more...]

4 Comments March 18, 2010

Are You a Shadow of Your Former Self… (D164)

... or is your former self a shadow of you? Pause. Think about it. The normal way we hear this phrase is a negative. You're a shadow of your former self, your glory days, your "thin" days or days in the skinny jeans. What if we turn the saying on it's head... is your former self a shadow of you? For me, it's the latter. When I think about myself just 10 years ago, I was in a remarkably … [Read more...]

5 Comments February 11, 2010

How to Get Killer Street Shot Photographs (D137)

Everyone wants to take killer street shots. Grabbing images on the fly. Capturing people you don't know going about their day. Freezing moments in everyday life. Photojournalistic. Creative. Fun. The video below is sure to give you some tips and ideas. It certainly inspired me and I only discovered the photographer, Joe Wigfall, this week through my husband since Joe is a future guest on F-Stop … [Read more...]

2 Comments January 15, 2010

Chasing the Light & Missing My Grandmother (D77)

I needed to get out of the house. It was time for a change of scenery. My pictures were feeling ordinary. I needed to shoot something new, different, un-ordinary. So I jumped in the car and followed the setting sun as it cast its warm glow across the trees and made even the traffic on a small country road seem mystical. It was the golden hour and I was determined to chase the light until I … [Read more...]

4 Comments November 16, 2009