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Feb 02
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Before and After Monday – Corpus Christi Photographer

On Mondays I like to focus on an image that I felt needed some extra attention to create the ultimate image. This week I wanted to focus on an image shot during the family session I had last week with a beautiful family out of Corpus Christi Texas. The whole session was discussed in a previous blog post. The image that I will be discussing is one of my favorite from the session, and is an intimate moment between Mom and her young daughter. The image itself is actually pretty good without to much editing, the exposure was good, the background wasn’t distracting, the eye engagement was great, and the moment itself was exactly what I was looking for. But there were a few elements that I felt needed a bit more attention and needed to be fixed in order for the image to be fantastic. I first imported the image into Adobe Lightroom where I begin all of my editing. Once I cropped the image, added a color action, and did some minor editing, I still wasn’t completely happy with the final image. I felt like the hair blowing from the mom across her face was a little distracting and knew […]
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Jan 26
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Before and After Monday – Rosie & Brandon Beach Wedding

This week, in my Before and After Monday, I’m sharing an intimate moment after a wedding ceremony on the beach. The weather and the location was breathtakingly beautiful and intimate for everyone who attended the wedding. After capturing the family portraits, I stole the bride and groom away for a quick session along the seashore. The ceremony took place on a public beach in Port Aransas Texas, where there many families were enjoying themselves around us, so naturally there was some public noise in the background that was unavoidable. The first thing I needed to focus on in this image, was that public noise in the background. I imported the image into Photoshop where I eliminated the clutter and the random spectators. There also was quite a bit of seaweed along the shoreline that needed to be addressed as well. Once that background was fix I could import the image into Lightroom were I typically do most of my editing. The image was a little underexposed so in Lightroom I was able to lighten the image up, and add a color effect that gave the image a soft ethereal feeling. I was trying to create a mood with the colors that […]
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Jan 12
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Before and After Monday – Portland Texas Photographer

So I thought maybe I would make this a “Thing” for Mondays, because lets face it my brain doesn’t always work fresh on Monday to come up with new ideas to talk about. Besides I thought it would be fun to revisit some old sessions and explain my thinking process. Normally I don’t really do extensive editing on my images, but sometimes you have these ideas floating around your head that would just take an image to the next level! This was one of my favorite family sessions that my dad and I did in the studio we have in Rockport TX. This family was a Blast and were very entertaining with minimal direction from either my father or myself. They own a BBQ place in Rockport and also offer alligator watching Air Boat rides on days the BBQ place is closed. So they naturally wanted to highlight their Outdoor experience, its also something they enjoy doing together as a family. They brought with them a full Duck Blind, decoy Ducks, Shot Guns, Camouflage, and Face Paint. It took us about 45 min to re-construct their Duck Blind in the studio, making sure the angle was correct as well has […]
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