Archive for January, 2010

Missy’s Winter Bridals: Star Valley Wyoming

Saturday, January 30th, 2010

While Bryant is off in Mexico shooting a wedding, I thought it would be appropriate to post some winter bridals. My hope is that he will check the blog while he is gone and have pity on those of us who are stuck back in Utah enduring the cold. Part of me hopes that he forgets to put sunblock on and comes back looking like something Red Lobster would envy.

When Missy and I got married, we were pretty much broke.  Funds were so tight that we decided to skip out on the bridals, and just have a photographer at the wedding.  We sometimes regret that we skipped the bridals.  While we were visiting my parents in Star Valley Wyoming for Christmas, we thought it might be fun to take some winter bridals.  I had a warm winter clothes on, and I was a bit chilled, yet Missy kept insisting that it wasn’t too bad (I couldn’t feel my fingers for part of the shoot).

One of the most difficult things about photography, at least for me, is deciding which way I want to go with the post processing.  Sometimes very natural looking images just look so good, others I just love the uniqueness that is added with some creative post processing.  For this post, I decided split some of my favorites up into groups depending on how they were processed.

Natural

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missy winter wedding bridal photography utah

This one is probably my favorite from the shoot.

missy winter wedding bridal photography utah

Black and White

missy winter wedding bridal photography utah

missy winter wedding bridal photography utah

missy winter wedding bridal photography utah

missy winter wedding bridal photography utah

Creative

missy winter wedding bridal photography utah

missy winter wedding bridal photography utah

Post Processing Magic: Winter Bridals

Friday, January 15th, 2010

Ok, it’s not really magic.  If we want to get technical, it’s just a bunch of 1′s and 0′s being re-arranged through a computer processor.  But that is really boring.  So I’m going to stick with calling it magic.

I often times find myself making multiple revisions of the same picture during post-processing.  It’s so hard to decide which version I like the best.  Thus, this is why I’m soliciting input from others.  Which version do you like the best?

1-Straight out of the camera . . . almost.  I adjusted the white balance and tone just a bit.

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1.5-Warmed up just a hair, and bumped the contrast slightly.

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2-Added a vignette, bumped the contrast up, added a slight green/brown split tone, and a barrage of other minute modifications.

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3-Took #2 and added some grunge textures.

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