Grad Photos

The first of the Grad photos for 2009 is here!

New Wedding Albums

IRISbook has recently announced a new design structure and price scheme.  This is great, because it now allows more options than last year's and will allow me to serve more clients with their Awesome quality printing.  I've created a new (interim) price list just for their albums which can be downloaded from my site here.  Can't wait to see the new linen covers!

Senior Portraits

Well, it's mid-April and time to start planning senior portraits for the upcoming graduation.  This year, I'm going to offer both a formal sitting with the gown, background, etc. and also some on location when requested.  This will allow my clients to have something that stands out from the normal images taken by school photographers.  Maybe I can do a package which includes both, if that's what is requested.  Shouldn't be too difficult to cook something up.........

Image Processing

Hey, I'm trying out a plug-in called Silver Effects by Nik Software.  It's designed for doing black and white images, which I really like, and it has all these presets that allow you to replicate the grain and appearance of shooting some of the popular films used prior to the big migration to digital image capture.  I processed one image like that, and it's kinda cool.  I can see there'll be quite a learning curve with this, however, before I'm really getting stunning images.  Have a look at an early attempt:

Deer Portraits

Well, haven't been at my blog for a while.  I was out yesterday with a fellow photographer after hearing the deer yard in Warwick.  We sorta used my truck as a portable blind, which allowed us to have our equipment at hand and also helped us keep from disturbing the animals.  It turned out to be an eventful trip, with a couple of good pics as well.

Portraits

Hey!  Since I seem to be doing some portraits in the off-season, I broke down and bought a background kit.  That's really just a fancy name for two heavy-duty light-stands and a crossbar, but it sounds nice anyway.  I think this'll also make a nice addition to some of the services I can provide to my wedding clients, since in our neck of the woods, it takes a big occasion for everyone to get together and allow their photo to be taken.  I'm thinking I'll be able to set up the background and a couple of lights and do family and guest portraits...... I dunno, might be fun for  the wedding couple to offer this to their guests.

Oh, and the two or three people in the world that might actually read this may have noticed I'm on Twitter now.  I thought it'd be cool.