Alina's Trash the Dress : Sneak Peek

We went to this awesome car junkyard to trash Alina's wedding dress. We went through so much to get this place to allow us to shoot there but we were so happy when the day finally came. Alina was such a trooper. It was a very hot, muggy day and we had to do the shoot mid-day because that's the only time we could get in for the shoot.

I never anticipated that all of the sand would cause such a hazy mist in the air. It made it so difficult to focus properly and made the images lack the pop that my photos normally have straight out of camera. But we used some off camera lighting to help fight through the sand mist a bit and then I really jazzed them up in photoshop.

We had such a great time shooting Alina. More of her fabulous Trash the Dress photos coming soon!!

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Fighting the sand in the air was difficult but luckily, I knew I'd be able to fix it in photoshop. There was nothing more I could have done on set. I just love the way they turned out though and how needing to fix the hazy air pushed me that much harder to make these images pop!

More coming soon.. hope you enjoyed the sneak peek!

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More editing fun & Sneak Peek Combo

Danielle and Patrick were a pleasure to shoot. I love alternative couples and people in general. Yes, that is a wedding dress. It's just a black one. :-)

This is Danielle and Patrick's Sneak Peek and also a before and after. I did a lot of work to this photo and was so proud of it that I just had to post the before photo to show the difference and to show what can be done and how a photo can once again be transformed into art.

I hope you enjoy..

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A before and after

A big part of what my clients get when they book me is a finished product. I love to take a photo and turn it into art. Some things simply cannot be done in camera even with a full studio set up on location which is not the easiest thing in the world to do and carrying all that stuff around and setting it up takes too much precious time.

This photo is a before and after from Jamee and Alex's Engagement session.

Hope you enjoy!

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A before and after

Fine tuning and enhancing images goes such a long way. I just love editing and making photos that much more special by putting that little bit of extra time and effort into them.

Here's a boudoir before and after photo of the lovely Rena. This is standard glamour editing for all of my boudoir clients. I've smoothened the skin and given it that glamour glow. I've darkened the background to bring the focus on our beautiful bride to be. I warmed her skin up just a little bit and saturated the colors and added a contrast boost.

I hope you enjoy!

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Sneak Peek - Erica and Brandon

Erica and Brandon were actually married almost two years ago. Unfortunately they didn't have a good photographer and were left unhappy with their wedding photographs. Erica first contacted me back in January and we just did their shoot tonight. They got dressed back up in their wedding attire and we went all over and got some amazing photos of them.

The following photo stood out to me the moment I got home so I uploaded it and edited it. Brandon isn't in this photo but he'll be in many that are soon to come.

Oh and I very rarely do this but I wanted to share both the before and after version of the photo. Some times people think these images just come out of the camera looking amazing. This photo has about 45 minutes worth of work put into it to take it from capture to completion.

More photos from Erica and Brandon's session coming soon!

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