Megan

I had the pleasure of shooting with my friend Megan this week! We've known each other since middle school and it was very exciting to get to do a photo shoot with her again. I haven't take any photos of her since last year because she's been gone for school. We initially tried to go for a 1920s vibe, but it kind of evolved into something a little bit different. I have recently become obsessed with the "Create Virtual Copy" feature in Lightroom, so I went a little nuts editing photos multiple ways. So I know there may be repeats in this post but I am organizing it by the style I used. Enjoy!

Can you believe it? Full color photos!

Now here's some styles that are a little different.

If you want to see more from this shoot, check out my facebook page at http://www.facebook.com/eyelightimages!

Erin

Yesterday, I got to do a photo shoot with Erin and it was definitely an adventure! We did some intense photos and some more whimsical ones. I love how a lot of these turned out! The lighting was perfect, despite it raining for about ten minutes. 

This next picture just shows how great the lighting was! It isn't edited at all.

I had this idea of a modern day greek goddess. I don't really know anything about greek mythology so we did some whimsical shots. I love this first one, also unedited. 

And then... I started editing again.

We also took a few head shots. I love the last one of Erin smiling, it's very her! 

Jasmine in the Mountains

Jasmine has been helping me get back into taking pictures - asking why I stopped and nudging me to get back into it. She asked for me to take photos of her and I had an idea...so we went up to our photo spot. It's a special spot and I haven't taken pictures of anybody else there! This time, I got to pick out Jasmine's clothes which was very exciting. It helped with the inspiration process. I'm amazed at how the photos turned out. The colors are spectacular! The photos that I'm posting that are in color have hardly been edited. My editing process probably took a total of 30 minutes. I'm sure I'll go back through the photos and find more that I want to edit. For now, here is what I have.

 These are the photos in color that I like in color so far.  I still can't believe how great they turned out :)

I love this very last photo of Jasmine. It captures her so well - so smiley! That's how the photo came straight out of the camera!

Next up...Naomi in body paint. You all should be excited for it. She just has to get back from Florida so I can photograph her!

Do it to it

I always have to edit pictures over the course of multiple days. I tend to miss things in the excitement of the first edit and my mood affects the photos drastically. So now I've gone through this set of photos twice and edited some of the photos twice. I found some hidden gems too playing with features I hadn't noticed before in Lightroom. The landscape photos are taken by me whereas the photos of me  - WHAT? a photographer modeling? preposterous! - were taken by my wonderful boyfriend, Mark Beaty.

 

This last one I cropped to this. I think it's pretty magical. Yeah, I used the word magical. Basically I love this picture :)

If you can't tell, the photos of me are heavily edited. That's because it was really freakin dark out! Mark turned the ISO up to 3200 towards the end determined to get a good shot. I think he succeeded. I missed editing. Goodness gracious. I miss taking pictures, too! I know I ought to do it more but I get so caught up in living and seeing the way I see. What I mean by that is that it is difficult to transfer what you see onto a sensor or film or whatever medium you use. The colors aren't right, the contrast is all wrong, and it's impossible to get people to focus on what you see... But sometimes you can get it right and that's amazing. I miss that feeling and I'm going to go after it. I plan on doing a photo shoot with Jasmine soon featuring her super awesome tattoo. Hopefully that will get me in the groove again and I'll start pestering all my friends to model for me :)

It feels good to take pictures simply because I want to.