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Wedding season begins – CONGRATS to Cathi and Derek!!

May 16, 2012 Posted in Wedding

Saturday was a gloomy day, which is my ABSOLUTE favorite weather to photograph in!  The dark Denver skies make an amazing contrast against a white wedding dress.  We all were just hoping the rain would stay away during pictures, which it did!!

Cathi and Derek were married at The Inn at Cherry Creek, which is a beautiful boutique hotel located in the center of the Cherry Creek shopping district.  Cathi and Derek had some AMAZING hand-made items, such as a bouquet made from paper, felt coursages and boutonniers, books for the guests and map-wrapped centerpieces!  The ceremony was beautiful and all the guest had such a fabulous time dancing the night away AND singing karaoke!

Thanks to Heather Lilly Photography for assisting me!  And, thank you to Cathi and Derek for having me photograph your special day, we had a great time!!

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Maria, StudioSister photography - May 16, 2012 - 3:38 pm

Stunning bride with great taste! Looks like this was a fun wedding! Great shots, Keri!

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Using Photoshop Subtly – Before/After

May 10, 2012 Posted in Photo FAQs, Portraits

When I first entered the world of Photography over 5 years ago, I was a MESS at Photoshop.  I tended to over-saturate, over vignette, whiten eyes, etc.  I hate to admit it, but I think I even did the occasional selective-coloring.  I ran everything at 100% opacity and thought I was doing good.  Thankfully, I belonged to an amazing photography forum who gave really good advice and photo critiques.  Over the years I learned the better I am in-camera, the faster I will be in Photoshop.  My latest tool is the Expo-Disk to assist with white balance.  It really showed me that my LCD screen is a little off when in comes to WB on the back of my camera.

Anyhow, I wanted to show you my editing steps in this image I captured about a week ago and that just subtle adjustments is all that is needed to make this a great image.

1.  Ran ProRetouch (TRA) at 40%…I still want to be able to see lines/pores in her face so she doesn’t look plastic.

2.  Removed a stray hair with the clone tool that was a bit distracting.

3.  Lighted up her face (at about 15% opacity) with Ying/Yang (TRA)

4.  Used my dodge tool to run over her eyelashes one time to get them a tad darker.

5.  Ran Oh Snap (TRA) at about 35% to give it a little more “pop”.  HOWEVER, I need to make sure I don’t loose the details in her black jacket.  They look pretty dark in this image, but on my computer, the details are still there.

6.  Smart Sharpened, saved as JPEG.  I also give my client a second, web-ready file of all their images.

 

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Zion National Park + Vegas Vacation

May 8, 2012 Posted in Personal

Before the wedding season kicks off this weekend, I thought it would be fun to have a little mini girls vacation before my days were consumed with editing.  After a few exchanged emails, we decided to visit St. George, UT and visit Zion National Park.  My two travel buddies were Rian and Bernie.  Rian flew in from Spokane, Bernie drove down from Salt Lake and I came in from Denver.  After the quick 2 hour drive, we arrived in St. George and stayed at Rian’s Aunts house.  It was BEAUTIFUL weather!!!  We spent the days sun-tanning, attending a rodeo, and hiking at Zion National Park.  Zion was BEAUTIFUL and the pictures below don’t do it justice at all!  I wouldn’t really consider myself a nature person (more of a city girl), but I was really quite impressed with it’s beauty and history!  A must-see excursion if you are in the area!

And, because it is hard to carry my “big” camera around all the time, here is a little collage of my iPhone images from the weekend!  Hope you all had a great weekend!!

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Denver, CO Portrait Photographer – Elizabeth

May 3, 2012 Posted in Portraits

I have been photographing Elizabeth for the past 2 year and I just love her energy and spirit she brings to both her business and personal life.  I am honored to call her my friend!  We had an amazing time taking some new business headshots for her, in fact, her mini session turned into 1.5 hours of shooting on a BEAUTIFUL evening in downtown Denver.  Elizabeth is game for anything and everything and also lets me test out some of my new photography toys!  I had such a fun time photographing you!!

Elizabeth is the author of Whole Living Blog, which gives you a TON of healthy and important information about eating right!

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Easter 2012

April 15, 2012 Posted in Personal

We started a new tradition this year…golf on Easter!  It was a great idea!  The weather was beautiful, the crowds were small and we got home in time to watch the end of the Masters.  Pretty fabulous!!

Mark informed me this morning that I hadn’t posted pictures from our day, so I hopped on the computer this morning to add a few snaps from our outing last weekend.  Ryland is driving the ball really far and Easton has a beautiful backswing!!  Can’t wait to get these boys in a few lessons, they LOVE the game!

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Katie James -Little Bird Celebrations - April 15, 2012 - 8:42 pm

Are they golfing with Easter eggs? Lol that would be awesome!

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