Category: Blog
You don’t look as bad as you think.
Want to improve the way you look in portraits? Maybe you’d like to help your subject improve their looks? Here are 9 pretty good tips to try out next time you’re in front of (or behind) the lens. 9 Reasons You Look Awful in Photos… And How to Fix Them
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New Care Concepts
I am so proud to be able to tell you that I had the honor to photograph the staff and clients for this incredibly compassionate and hard working group of individuals that make up the specialized care organization called New Care Concepts. They have an office location right in the heart of Old Ballard on Market Street. Check out their website, they’ve totally revamped it. I love the logos that Susan Giordano came up with for them, Susan is the gal that orchestrated the entire effort of revising their online…
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Evidence
We spent our 29th Anniversary weekend at the Lake Qunault Lodge in the Olympic National Forest. The lodge was built in 1926 and in 1937 President Franklin Delano Roosevelt visited the lodge. The dining room then became known as “The Roosevelt Room” ever since. The menu of what was served that day for dinner is posted outside of “The Roosevelt Room.” There didn’t appear to be choices, it looked like a menu from a traditional supper club with the side dish being a gelatin vegetable ring and cottage cheese. Although the rooms are not at…
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David and Brianna Wedding Album
This is a link to the preliminary setup for a wedding album, there are more more more photos and probably better ones, but the files are buried in my hard drives so I have to get to them – that you may want to add or change out, but here is a preview of how I have it setup. It’s 20 pages and setup to be a 12×12 square lay flat album, open laying flat would be 24w x 12h. The wedding pictured in this album took place in 2012 at…
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The Pelican Briefly
Today in this cold, foggy weather, my mind has drifted back to New Smyrna Beach, Florida. Bright sunny days and so many birds. We were there last February and today I just remembered a few photos I wanted to look at again. Took a while to find them. I guess I take a lot of photographs! My husband’s mother, Grandma Doris, lives in New Smyrna and she loves it there. It is warm and sunny most of the days. Doris really enjoys going to this marina restaurant and especially loves…
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Muench Workshops
I am excited to tell you that I have been selected to be part of the live audience for the Creative Live Workshop with Marc Muench, Landscape Photographer. The episodes will be airing LIVE on the Creative Live Internet site this Thursday & Friday, January 8 &9 from 8am to 4pm. You are welcome to watch for free the day it is showing live and after that there is a charge to cue it up to view at your leisure. It’s kind of a quirky coincidence that I was selected because…
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New Year’s Day
For the past four years on New Year’s Day, I have taken a night photo at Gasworks Park. No particular reason but over the past couple years there is a noticeable change in the cityscape. One very noticeable change this year was that the tree on top of the Space Needle is already gone. At first I thought it was just not lit but since I had also taken a day time photo at Kerry Park, I see that it’s not there either. I wonder why? About 6:15 pm, clear and…
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TOPAZ GLOW
When it comes to post processing and filtering, generally less is more. Simple tweaks to brighten up, add more or subtract some contrast intensity, a little sharpening, that is generally all that’s needed on a digital image if it’s a good one. Of course there can be some more specific portrait corrections, deleting distractions, adding vignettes or creating a particular look for a group of images. But sometimes you might just want to get crazy, so when I got this Topaz email to “illuminate your photos with electrifying light” well, why not play a…
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