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 layer [...]

High-Key Photography
High-Key means that the overall key tone of the photo is high.
The key to successful high-key photography is working with flat and ample lighting and at the same time avoiding the use of dark subject matter. White-on-white makes for the best high-key photos.
There are three characteristics of high-key photography:

First is that the photo’s tone [...]

This is another shot from inside the Hospital located at the East Garrison of Fort McDowell.
I call this shot “Cascading Hallways”. This is one of my favorite HDR composites from the day.  The detail and texture of the grunge really give extreme depth and dimension. Please enjoy.

OK, now we are having way too much fun.
This week we came up with this outrageously fun Pixie on a mushroom Fantasy Portrait and is fast becoming one of our favorites.
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Camera specs: Canon 1-Ds Mark II with Canons EF 70 - 200mm f/2.8L IS USM [...]

The latest Fantasy portrait that we have come up with over here at R.Mabry Photography is the “Angel”. This angelic pose gives the impression of ascension - we hope to heaven!
Keep tuning in to see the new environments that we are developing as part of our Fantasy Portrait Series. Do you have a halo? Be [...]

Here was a fun shoot that my wife and I did after a friend loaned us a pair of shoes she had bought for a party with a gambling theme.
Most people would have looked at the shoes and thought “interesting…”. I saw these shoes and my mind went spinning and dozens of photo ideas just [...]

We have officially launched our NEW Fantasy Portraits! R. Mabry Photography is now offering several Fantasy portrait options, including Vampires and Angels for adults and teens, and Fairies and Pixie options for the little ones.
Here is an example of our vampire portrait shot of my sister-in-law Dawnn (hence the title). This is Dawnn’s version of [...]

Because of all the rain here this week I thought we would stay in the studio. Here is a photo that we shot over the weekend.
We were looking for a winter wonderland type of look and I think we nailed it. We shot this with a typical 4 light studio strobe setup. The key light [...]

This is a photo I took while my wife and I were visiting Joshua Tree National Park. The photo was OK, but I felt that I could make it better. So, I decided to play with it in Photoshop and some of my favorite filters.
Here is the process that I used to obtain the effect [...]

Last week I posted a photo of Jennifer from a photo shoot we did out at the Mare Island Ship yard in Vallejo, California. I thought that I would give Rebekah equal publicity time. I used my retouching process to work with this  photo of Rebekah. The photo below is the final image. The other [...]