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Beautiful Bokeh

This portrait of my daughter Christina was shot in our living room in front of the Christmas tree. I used a large aperture with an 85mm 1.8 lens to create this great out of focus background. The circles of light created from this technique are called bokeh. This helps give separation and makes Christina the focal point of the portrait. Click to enlarge.

Photoshop Lesson

Todays lesson is a quick non destructive way to dodge and burn to make your image pop. This method will give your images more modeling and add a 3D look to them. Import your image into Photoshop. Click Layers on the top menu tool bar. Click New > layer. In the pop up menu box set the mode to Overlay. Now check the box that says ( fill with overlay-neutral color 50% gray ). Go to your brushes palette and choose a soft brush. Start with a low opacity. Make sure your color tool bar is set to black and white. Now click the layer mask in your layers palette and paint your image. Remember black adds and white subtracts. Start with a low opacity and build your image up to the desired depth. As you can see in the sample images the top is a tad flat. By using this method you can non destructively add modeling to any image.

Happy Thanksgiving Weekend

Have a safe and joyful holiday weekend. Happy Thanksgiving everyone.

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Doggie Portraits

We are doing Halloween portraits this week and it is going to the dogs. Here is Nittany dressed as a devil for the holiday session. Nittany was then caught in our pumpkin patch looking for his perfect pumpkin. We had a great time shooting this little wiener. Get your dog in here and we'll shoot him too.

Engaged and loving it

My daughter Lisa is getting married next year to Jeff Englert. He is a great guy and we welcome him to our family. We took their engagement pictures on Wednesday. It was a perfect fall day and we went to Glen Falls, in Williamsville for the shoot. We walked around the park and shot in various locations looking for fall color for our backgrounds. I think we got some great images for them. Here are a few favorites. You can view the complete shoot at our main site.
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