We had amazing weather and beautiful bright blue skies for this shoot; yes I know there’s been 3 blog posts from Red Rock Canyon but I promise to show you all something different in this blog!

I have to say Danny and Kellie were great, it was fun listening to Danny give Kellie a hard time about snakes and other critters that could be running around. Kellie is absolutely beautiful, and so easy to photograph – and Danny is handsome and fun so the two of them were a joy to work with.

Kellie and her mom came into the office today and it was obvious that they loved almost every photo, but an interesting thing happened… we got a little “crazy” with some of the special processing to a few of the photos, knowing that some people would LOVE the processing, and others wouldn’t like it at all. What was interesting is that Kellie loved (or at least thought it was cool) the processing, but mom not-so-much. Mom did like the black-and-white conversions but not the crazy stuff. That’s OK, special processing very much depends on personal taste and some of the processing was pretty extreme!

So, we got thinking and decided to do something different on this blog – post 2 versions of each photo! One almost un-processed, and one with the processing. We always provide both versions to our clients anyway, but I thought it would be interesting to show my blog readers some of the different processing that is POSSIBLE. I know not all will like it, but at least you can see what is possible!

This first one, both Kellie and mom loved. This is almost completely “raw” out of the camera, other than a crop:

Now, simple processing, a nice contrasty black-and-white…

For this second one, this is where we got a little crazy. the full-color shot was nice, but the lighting just BEGGED for black-and-white so we did a lower-contrast B/W conversion and added a little of my trademark “glow” – for the rest of these, you’ll want to click on the photo for the larger version:

The wild processing is a “surreal, edgy” effect; of course I’ll give credit where credit is due, this came from Matt Kloskowski’s Killer Tips and we’ve been using a few of his processes lately. We took his preset but then turned down the exposure and softened it up a little bit, the effect is like-it-or-hate it…

Here’s the 3rd one… really a pretty basic photo here but we felt it would work very well with a slightly different (and more pronounced) “edgy” effect from the same preset family.. the original:

And the very extreme processed version, it kind of reminds me of a drawing more than a photo – almost a modern-day Saturday Evening Post type look?

And finally, just a finished version here, I got a few really nice silhouette photos, this one is my favorite:

I hope this blog post wasn’t too technical (or boring) for the non-photographers that are reading!

I am looking forward to shooting Danny and Kellie’s wedding in February, we’ll have 2 photographers covering all the formal times (and the getting ready times) so I expect to have some great shots!

Good luck guys!

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