Easter family pictures for a steal!

I am offering a great Easter deal. Book a location session for your family Easter photos anytime between now and April 3rd and receive two 10x8 family shots, one 5x7 of each family member and a cd or dvd of up to 25 shots all for a steal at $150 (+ tax) and in time for Easter on April 8th. Be sure to book quickly as the slots will go fast. I can do the following times:

Weekdays: 4pm to 530pm (weather permitting)
Saturdays: 9am to 1030am
11am to 1230pm
130pm to 3pm
330pm to 5pm
Sundays: please call for times

See you and speak to you all soon. Best wishes.

Post editing Amanda

Wow, I hadn't realized quite how tedious and boring editing photos was going to be. Funny thing was, I had done 35 out of 47 shots and found some other software. So I ended up putting the first 35 through the new software and therefore it took forever! Sadly the software I was using will cease to exist from April 19, so i have to find something similarly easy and quick to use. I got Photoshop Elements, but it is so damned tedious to use. Another reason why I took until last night to finish editing. I have to sit and learn PSE before I try to incorporate it into my photography. The blemish removal is just far too intense and the skin of the subjects ends up looking like porcelain and I hate that. The images look so utterly fake. So I suppose I am going to have to find some PSE classes that I can take that specifically deal with blemish removal and skin smoothing effects. The rest is easy enough in Picasa. And overall my thoughts are, if you have to edit your photos you are doing something wrong, unless it's blemishes and poor skin.

Hi res pics, well, a couple at least...

So as not to encourage stealing of my copyright, I am only posting three hi res images. Let me know what you think. Rather more editing than I would normally do, but they look kinda cool.

Official business...

Today was my first official day as a "professional" photographer. I couldn't get to see anyone about getting my licence, but that's what Monday is for. The woman I needed to get the licence from wasn't around and I had so much to do I couldn't wait for her. But I got my EIN yesterday and some business paperwork stuff today. Need to figure out what to do with it.

So Amanda and her mom, Alicia and Amanda's boyfriend came for the sitting. My first official sitting. I was nervous but not as much as for Chante's sitting. It was a lot of fun. We did lots of shots. Some were similar to others, but in different outfits and slightly different poses and positions. I am surprised at how tiring it can be. My biggest problem is coming up with new poses, so it's useful that the clients have at least a little idea of what they want too.

Here are a few of the shots of Amanda...

New hair requires new photos!

So my hair gets really heavy when it gets long so I got it cut....

And Natalie's lack of style was just ugly so she got this....

I am bias but this is a stunning image of her. Love it.