Showing posts with label image manipulation. Show all posts
Showing posts with label image manipulation. Show all posts
Sunday, January 16, 2011
Community Education Classes
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Coming this February and March:
Carrie Weston Photography is pleased to be offering Beginning Digital Photography and Basic Photoshop classes through Fridley Community Eduction. Beginning Digital Photography starts on February 1st and has limited spaces available, and you have all the way till March to sign up for Basic Photoshop.
If you are interested in learning anything about composition, the Rule of Thirds, or simply how to take your brand new shiny Christmas present out of the most basic of settings, be sure to check the class offerings out.
I am also always welcome to suggestions for new class ideas. I am currently creating my class schedule for the spring semester.
Carrie Weston Photography is pleased to be offering Beginning Digital Photography and Basic Photoshop classes through Fridley Community Eduction. Beginning Digital Photography starts on February 1st and has limited spaces available, and you have all the way till March to sign up for Basic Photoshop.
If you are interested in learning anything about composition, the Rule of Thirds, or simply how to take your brand new shiny Christmas present out of the most basic of settings, be sure to check the class offerings out.
I am also always welcome to suggestions for new class ideas. I am currently creating my class schedule for the spring semester.
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Saturday, November 20, 2010
Christmas Card Mini Sessions
You’ve made your list, checked it twice, and come to the conclusion that it was naughty of Santa to give you so much to do for the holiday season?
Carrie Weston Photography is happy to help you with just one of those items on your list. I am offering a new Mini-Session option, just for the holiday season that will take care of your holiday photo and Christmas card needs. For a session fee of just $49 you will receive:
· A 30 minute photo session at a location of your choice within the Twin Cities Metro
· An online, password protected gallery with at least 20 images to purchase from with no order minimums.
· You can create your own custom Christmas card using the photos in the gallery, or I will craft several selections for you to pick from.· Purchase photographic prints, merchandise (including mugs, magnets and coasters) and cards from the comfort of your own home. Orders over $40.00 arrive in Boutique Packaging—perfect for gift giving.
· Prints that arrive on your doorstep- no hunting through crowded stores or waiting in lines.
Simply email me, or call to arrange your session during the months of November up till December 15!
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Wednesday, October 27, 2010
Opinion~ How Much Do I Edit?
Sometimes working in my profession is a wonderful thing-- I get to work with wonderful clients and see them at some of the most important moments in their lives. The new babies, graduating seniors, couples on the verge of marriage are all wonderful reasons to love photography.
However, there is a side of photography that is much less a positive, when it is image manipulation that can give young girls negative body images. Actress, and Minneapolis native Rachel Leigh Cook recently spoke out about image manipulation in Hollywood and in the media, and I feel that I need to address this in connection to what I do.
I pretty much do at least some editing on every photo that I give you, and pretty much every photo that I use for myself. Primarily I do simple color correction, vignetting, cropping etc. But the side that I have to use a careful balance with is when it comes to further editing that may change any features of your face or body. In photography magazines and forums I see countless ads for software to get rid of freckles and wrinkles, make eyes larger, lips bigger, eyes brighter, bodies thinner.
However, there is a side of photography that is much less a positive, when it is image manipulation that can give young girls negative body images. Actress, and Minneapolis native Rachel Leigh Cook recently spoke out about image manipulation in Hollywood and in the media, and I feel that I need to address this in connection to what I do. How much do I edit?
I pretty much do at least some editing on every photo that I give you, and pretty much every photo that I use for myself. Primarily I do simple color correction, vignetting, cropping etc. But the side that I have to use a careful balance with is when it comes to further editing that may change any features of your face or body. In photography magazines and forums I see countless ads for software to get rid of freckles and wrinkles, make eyes larger, lips bigger, eyes brighter, bodies thinner.
I'll admit, I brighten eyes, brighten teeth, soften a few wrinkles, and I remove a ton of blemishes-- mostly baby blemishes. Milia are tiny white spots that appear on at least half of baby's faces, and can draw focus in a newborn photo away from seeing just how precious and beautiful your new little one is, and onto the tiny, white bumps that appear right on schedule for your newborn session.
In this photo of my own precious son at about a month old, he looks adorable- even with the milia on his face. However, in the edited version I have simply: cloned away the bumps, smoothed his skin a bit, and brightened his eyes just a touch. However, he still looks like him, which is my point. I would never and will never change the things that make you, you. Why would I mess with God's good work?
In this photo of my own precious son at about a month old, he looks adorable- even with the milia on his face. However, in the edited version I have simply: cloned away the bumps, smoothed his skin a bit, and brightened his eyes just a touch. However, he still looks like him, which is my point. I would never and will never change the things that make you, you. Why would I mess with God's good work?
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