Posts under ‘Photoshop’

I don’t even know if Nerdery is an actual word But, it seems appropriate.  My friend Ron recently became pretty serious about playing Bass and is always talking about it.  Kinda like I always talk about Photography.  He is going to assist me from time to time on shoots and I needed to familiarize him [...]

There is a style of retouching right now that gives an image a very edgy high contrast look.  I have wanted for a long time to learn this technique but it has evaded me until now.  Of course there are plugins available for purchase that do a pretty good job of making the effect but [...]

Had the opportunity to shoot with Julie in December who wanted some fantasy and pinup shots to giver her new husband for a Christmas present.  We shot on a Sunday while he was watching football (yes I missed a Sunday of Football).  So we shot some on a plain background I could change in Photoshop.  [...]

I had a business meeting in Baltimore and spent a couple hours burning some time at the inner harbor. I walked around the USS Constellation.  I love sailing ships so I’m up for any chance to get on board one.  Walked trough the Mall Downtown and I discovered some sea monsters in the Harbor. Good [...]

I recently tried out a new lens. The Nikon AF VR Zoom Nikkor 70-200mm f/2.8 G-AFS ED-IF Autofocus Lens.  Man, that’s a mouthful.  Basically I have been using a Tamron 70-200 2.8 Lens with good results but it has some annoying focus issues. The Nikon is way more expensive but it focuses faster and more [...]

Here’s a couple more from my shoot with Megan.  I have been wanting to try my hand at fantasy portraits in Photoshop so I used one the images from the Megan shoot.  I think I’ll call it “Back from my visit”
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You know in most cases it’s kinda sad when your work is also your hobby.  In the case of photography it’s actually pretty common since most of us came to this as a hobby.  I spent a lot of time last year focusing on working as a photographer that I didn’t shoot much for fun.  [...]

I took a couple of recent images and played with them in Photoshop tonight.  I have been looking for a way to get this look.  Let me know what you think.