Covid Friendly Christmas Minis

Dec 06, 2020

 Covid Friendly Christmas Mini Sessions Offering Christmas Mini Sessions can be a difficult proposition during a pandemic.   However, with the right compositing skills, you can create eye-catching images that capture the magic of the holidays.  But it does require proper instruction from the photographic artist to pull off successful building blocks.  In this particular series of composites, it was clear where the direction of light was falling in the scene. (For ...

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Baby Art

Dec 03, 2020

They say a picture paints a thousands words. But, sometimes, it just has to paint one:  Baby. This image of Aubrey, my niece's beautiful daughter, was captured initially in my home studio with a relatively simple set up.   A single soft box, feathered across this little tutu baby! How to pose a toddler is always a bit of a challenge, unless you toss in a little treat.   In the original photo, she was nibbling on a cheerio.  I simply removed the treat in photoshop. ...

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Up on the Rooftop

Dec 01, 2020

Whats more realistic than two toddlers perched on a snowy rooftop without parental supervision? Lets face it, what child wouldn't want to sit on a snowy ledge gazing at a full moon with the silhouette of Santa soaring across the moon with his reindeer. Some people think you need to start with amazing images to create a composite.   However, a photoshoot during a spiraling epidemic, swirling with uncertainty, is a challenge.   The only swirling I want to see is of the snow-fall ...

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Times Are Changing

Oct 30, 2020

The Story Art is inspired by multiple influences, a fact punctuated by the last several months.    This year has left me feeling vulnerable, tangled in a mess of circumstances that has marked 2020.  People seem more angry and impatient as they deal with loss:   Loss of freedom, loss of health, loss of loved ones, loss of jobs....the list goes on. Despite these dark times, I still feel a sense of optimism over our future.   I'm hoping that we will return to decency, ...

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Whimsy

Aug 20, 2020

Whimsy and Wine It's been that kind of week, ya know?  Where circumstances make you just want to escape.  And despite social distancing, I have a vast realm where I can explore void of disease and politics:  My imagination! So I grabbed a cell phone image that was sent to me, poured a glass of wine (not that this is needed, but hey, I'm not driving), and sat at the computer to begin the image.  Since I love to stalk images on Pinterest, I did see one that piqued my ...

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