Editing Photos...how I do! ;)

I have a lot of folks ask me about what kind of Photoshop editing I do. I try and do as minimally as possible. I won't remove a mole or a bunch of freckles, because, that makes you, YOU. ;) But I will get rid of zits and maybe if you have some dark circles under your eyes. I will also add a little flair to your photos if I see a pattern of it developing as I edit your pictures.

But again, I try and do as little as possible with obvious editing to your photos. What I mean is, I want photos to look like they were never touched by Photoshop. Girls, just like when you first started to wear make up and you would douse it on so the world knew you had make up on, and it wasn't until your mom or big sister saw what you were doing to your probably wonderful natural beauty and taught you, less is more and only enhance what you have! I take the same approach with editing photos. When I add Photoshop techniques, I don't try to hide it. I won't make a person's pupils bigger or try and make them skinnier, or take off a layer of a double/triple chin. It takes away from the truth of what I just captured and where the subject was at in their life at that moment.

Here and there I like to take some creative license and add a little more flair to a photo for fun. If some of that fun is added, it will always be obvious.

Take a look at one of Rachel's photos. I did a side by side so you could see what I mean. The photo on the left is straight out of camera, and on the right, after I did my usual edits in Photoshop.I just bumped up the color a little, got rid of a small blemish, made some of the lines a little crisper and BAM! Done. :)


I know I keep saying it, but I have a lot more to share. It's a-comin'!

Sooooo busy. Picture of the Week!

Hello friends.

I am not ignoring you or the blog. I am chin deep in editing and taking pictures. All I can say is:

Busy. Busy. Holiday. Season. Hustle. Bustle.

Here is a lil' picture of the week, which has turned into "picture of the month or so" but either way, there is still a picture involved, right?! :)



I have to tell you all something before I end this post. My boss said the other day, "yes, please check what they write, because a lot of the time people write the way they talk." I walked away chuckling to myself because most of what I write would say "duuuude" quite a bit. At the time I was thinking about work related documents.

Then I realized, I TOTALLY write the way I talk on this blog. And for that I apologize. :) hahaha! I use to be a far better writer than I am now. I was on my high school newspaper! I wanted to be a writer all the way back in 6th grade. I even started writing short stories. Then some where, some how I became the "amazing writer" you read before you today. I make up words, I have spelling mistakes, I don't use grammar correctly anymore, I elongate words like "aaaaaand" a looooot! ;) So with all that said, thank you for reading anyway!

Please keep a look out, I will try to get something else up this week!

Picture weirdness, like a good relationship, gone bad.

Soooo, just a little side note...Blogger did something weird. I have to do a lot of html mumbo jumbo to make the pictures come out so large. Well a few weeks ago, Blogger changed some things, and now when I make the pictures big, they look a little pixelated/blocky/blurry/weeeeiird. I'm sorry! I'm trying to fix it.

Sometimes I think my eyes are playing tricks on me. And then other moments I know I'm not crazy! Straaange.



Blogger, oh how I have enjoyed the first half our relationship...we got along so well. We understood each other in a way I didn't think possible. I was falling in love over and over again in the beginning. I never thought I would love blogging, and then you came a long and changed my mind. Aaaand then this. I really thought at first it was me. I was willing to take the blame. But then I realized, "wait a minute, I'm doing more work here!" And I thought this whole time there was this equal 50/50 give and take. I don't want to fight. I really don't. But we might...sob...end our relationship sooner than I planned.




In the mean time, please bear with me! This really is actually leading me to looking into upgrading to new super dope blog, but it's all still in the works.