Family in Colour

        Yesterday I posted three of my photos from my shoot on the weekend.  Those shots I chose to process in Black and White for various reasons.  Todays shots are the ones I chose to process in Colour.  I find colour processing a little trickier to get the result I'm looking for.
       When processing in black and white it is easy to make very big adjustments and still have the resulting photograph look good and interesting.  In colour everything has to be a little more subtle.  I tend to choose photos for colour processing that are very well lit (which all of these were thanks to Ryan and his awesome knowledge and equipment) and have some sort of bright colour in them that I want to bring out.
       From there the choices are nearly endless.  Do I want a high key photo?  Vivid Colours? Maybe something a little more subtle?  It's a very organic process and where with a black and white image I tend to go into the process with a vision of what I want, colour tends to be exactly the oposite.  I have the photo and then I start playing around with it until the feature I want to showcase looks right.  It's far from a science, and hopefully you guys see it as I do...art.

Family in Black and White

Here is the second lot of shots from my photoshoot on the weekend.  These are the shots I chose to process in Black and White.  It's not always easy to decide which way to go when processing a shot.  Many photographs can look great in any number of styles.  My process of making that choice tends to lie in what I see when I first open the raw file.  I try to start off with an idea of what attracts me to the photo.   I then try to figure out the best way to accentuate that feature.  To give an example, on the first shot posted here (the one above this text) my favorite part of the shot was his huge beautiful eyes.  I really wanted them sharp with a lot of contrast when I looked at the raw shot.  My B&W shots usually have very high contrast and I can really pull the features I want to the forground without making the rest of the shot look uneven.  The result in my eyes at least is usually an interesting photograph.  Though it isn't always to everyones taste  it tends to just be how I see the shot.  I would love to some time have a few of us photographers take the same shot and each process it in our own style to see what different final products we end with.  I imagine that the results would be very cool and very unique.  I'll post some of my colour shots in the next day or two so you can see the difference a little colour can make.

Dan

Spring is almost here!

         I feel like I've been hibernating for the last few months, photographically at least.  I haven't really taken anything other then the odd snapshots of Christmas and Birthdays since my last blog entry, hence the radio silence.  Anyway, being always the showoff, when I have new work I feel I need to post it.  Here are the first few shots from my latest shoot, along with my Brother Ryan .
         The shoot was a family affair, Kristie's side.  Shots of the kids all together and apart and whatever else we could capture.  Had a blast and again learned a lot about lighting and composition.  Thanks to everyone involved for a successful shoot, not to mention a great meal and some good times :)