Week In Review

Last week from a flying standpoint was a breeze. Two days home, one travel, one work, another travel, one standby at the airport then yesterday was a checkride and airline flight home. This will get posted in the morning but right now I am in LaGuardia waiting for my flight to Grand Rapids. Every time I tether by phone to my laptop at an airport my mind goes wee, it's free free free.

I was able to get a bunch of editing done on a number of shoots I have done over the past couple of weeks which was nice to get caught up a little. Here are some of the images from those sessions.

The first one is a family from the Church Directory shoot and I got to playing around with changing the color of the background in Lightroom. This is not the color we are using in the directory, it is more of a grey lit with two strobe with full CTO gels giving the background a rusty look.

This was a Allan and Ava which are part of my marketing department because the spread the word really good. I had a roll of white seamless under the background and had them show up before the evening onslaught of shooting began. I wanted to do some high key shooting and it turned out well.

This is the other family in my marketing department. Mom just wanted the kids pictures and did not want to be a part of it. This was actually shot on the same white seamless. A trip to photoshop is all it takes to pull them out of the image and place a background in behind them. The gold PF in the lower right corner is a watermark from Lightroom that I am using as part of a selection/workflow process that I am working on.

My daughter Sandy, husband Chris and little guy Levi were in over Thanksgiving so I set up my moonlight background and hit it with a single strobe with a blue gel.

All in all last week was a productive week in one respect or another. This week is at home and I have a number of items on my plate but the one paramount project is the migration to the new iMac which sadly to say is still in it's box :(

Take care all... Doug