Archive for 'Retouching'

Stoke Ranch Filling Station

Wordless Wednesday: 1950s Memorabilia In HDR

Wordless Wednesday inspiration came from an incredible opportunity to spend time on a local collectors property by special invitation. His 50′s motive architecture and collection of memorabilia made for an exciting collection of images. This HDR rendering of his on-site filling station had a lot of character to draw on. Keep shooting – Ray

Bobcat

3 Easy Steps To Rescuing a Photo

This gorgeous animal walked through our yard a few weeks ago. Having your camera always at the ready comes in handy. Once I was lucky enough to capture the shot, just a few tweaks made this California Bobcat even more beautiful. Review the steps in the photos below:  Step 1: Take the photo  Step 1: [...]

Portrait Photography Lighting No.5

Portrait Photography Lighting No.5

Here is a sample photo from a seminar that we have been fine tuning and will offering soon. If you are interested in attending this class on Portrait lighting let us know we will be announcing it soon.

Portrait Photography Lighting No.4

Portrait Photography Lighting No.4

Here is a sample photo from a seminar that we have been fine tuning and will offering soon. If you are interested in attending this class on Portrait lighting let us know we will be announcing it soon.

Portrait Photography Lighting No.1

Portrait Photography Lighting No.1

Here is a sample photo from a seminar that we have been fine tuning and will offering soon. If you are interested in attending this class on Portrait lighting let us know we will be announcing it soon.

Foiled Again

On the wall of En Garde Fencing in Santa Rosa California is a cluster of broken foil’s. Anytime a foil is broken during a match the broken foil is placed among the others. To me this was a gold mine of opportunity. When I took this photo I thought it would be interesting, but when [...]

Fun With HDR

When I was at Jack London State Park last weekend I came upon some Ive growing up an oak tree. The color contrast of the Ive and the earthy tones of he oak tree gave me the idea that this might make a good HDR image. I am very pleased with the out come of [...]

How To Capture Youth in Motion

On day on an outing My Step Jake son was goofing around by jumping on a fire hydrant so I set my camera on burst mode and captured him in motion. I then processed the photos through Lightroom and then brought them into Photoshop as layers. Once in Photoshop I simply made masks for each [...]

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