Spring and Summer Children's Work

[Lacey Anne]

Erin, you post on ILP too right? I love these! Your newborn shots in particular are beautiful. We're about to relocate to Dallas ourselves. I'm sort of looking forward to rebuilding my business. Anyway, beautiful work.

 

[EJBPhoto]

Thanks guys!!!

Reyna- I beliiiieve Dallas we are doing a bunch of Dallas shoots the 2nd or 3rd week of August Contact the studio in Austin if you're interested!

Jenn- Thank you! I do very little. I used to over edit as well. I first adjust my exposure (I always under expose) by either creating a new layer and changing the mode to screen mode, and adjusting the opacity of that, and then also by sometimes raising my midtones and bringing down my blacks in levels. Then I do a slight defog at 20.60.1, do some selective cloning (I'm a big cloner. I often clone the cheek at 10% opacity and then use it to just even out the skin, painting over parts of the skin where it doesn't look as creamy), and then adjust the skin tones. Honestly, I just eyeball them. I refer to other photographers websites to compare color a lot as I go through a session. Finally I run portraiture on them- pricey, but worth every penny. I bought portraiture (150ish) and then downloaded the free actions to use with it and run 'smoothing normal' at around 70% on everything. HTH!

Reese- Just photoshop Like most photogs, I do correct my color by a lot of practice and just getting good at skintones, and the sharpness is just sharp lenses and accurate focus. Hope that helps!

Nj- Thanks!!!

Lacey- Oh that's great! Austin is it's own beast... haha it really is. Dallas seems competitive too. Good luck!

 

[jenn76]

Erin,
I can't thank you enough for your informative reply! I am starting to edit my shoot from this evening, and using just a couple of tips from you, I can already see a difference! Thank you for sharing! If you ever need a shadow for a day, let me know!

~jenn