Matte color.

So, I am totally in love with matte finishes to photos.

I never knew how to do it and am not at all claiming I do.

But I did some hard digging around (without buying

an action pack from any site). And found Tonya Holsey Photography.

She made it pretty easy. While I still have a long ways to go I decided

to practice on one of my recent shoots and this is what I came up with.

The top one is the original straight out of the camera photo and the bottom one is the edited.

Look below for the full size edited one.

Any tips or easy ways you turn your photos matte or any
tips to bring the warm glow in there are welcomed! 
Thanks!


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I had a little more time to give it another try.
These are my boys.
There is so much going on in the photo so I decided
to crop some of it out.
Heres attempt #2 of "matte-ifying".

And the big picture.

Another one.

Practice makes perfect?

Until next time. . . 

Black & White.

Once again I was inspired by a i heart faces.

I was browsing their site and found a link to how to 
create a black & white matte finish to photos.

It's so fun to change up the whole feeling of the photo 
when transforming it to black & white.

Here is what I created.

Everything around her just intensifies & I love it.

I love the texture of the wood behind her.

Matt-ey.

The brick has so much detail and her eyes are so textured. 

I love this tutorial and I just want to go through all my photos, to turn them 

black & white and see what pops from the photo!

Until next time. . .

Ghost Inspired.

I was recently inspired by i heart faces site with their ghostly portrait tutorial.

Therefore I borrowed my friend and photographer Daniela.

She's amazing. She agreed (last minute request I might add).

She also found this amazing spot a while ago and I thought it'd be perfect. 

Therefore I've messed around with it a couple of times and some I didn't even "ghost-ify" the picture. She's just to pretty to become a ghost! 

Ready.

Set.

BOO!

First I just jumped into and started off like this.

I asked people and hubby what they thought and they said creepy. So I was verry happy!

Then I had her pose in different places but the same "spot" to capture many ghost of Daniela.

Here is one with 4 and the next one is with 3. I can't decide if it is too crowded, therefore I did one with 4 and one with 3.

What do you think?  4 or 3?

Okay and now she is too gorgeous to be a ghost so here are just some pictures.

By far my favorite.

So. . . what do you think?




Oh and by the way. I love photoshop. Look at the before and after!

Until next time. . . 

Dani. Part two...or three?

Daniela is AWESOME!

She's an amazing photographer that also took my family pictures, a great friend, and looks like a model. She is just so photogenic and the camera loves her. Picture time.

^

I love love love this one!

Until next time. . . 

Christina.

Christina is a local photographer and an amazing mother of twins! She was so much fun to work with and hilarious. I can't believe how much energy she had (she works, has her own photography business, and a busy mom of two). I can't wait to work with her again.

I'm so lucky to photograph and have gorgeous friends.

Until next time. . .

Taelynne.

Taelynne and I met through a local Photography group and although we met there little did I and maybe she knew, our husbands knew each other before we even met. They happen to work together. Funny how things happen in a small town. Anyways, she is gorgeous and fun to be around. Let's get to the photos!

Isn't she just too gorgeous!?

Until next time. . .

Girl's Night.

So, remember that night where I was attending a girls photo session to "be on the other side" of the camera. Well tonight, or I guess literally last night we did our "re-do" and while a one friend couldn't come, I still had a blast. Pictures to come in individual posts. But I want to thank these gals for letting me take their photos and also taking my photo.

Until next time. . .