Picture Monday!

A while back I did a tutorial on architectural photography that featured this house and I thought that you all might be interested in seeing how some of the rest of the photos turned out. This is a great house in the Village literally right behind the Carolina Hotel. It is very quaint and has some awesome bathrooms (very important). It is being listed by Brandee and Bob Bryant and if you or anyone that you know might be interested in it, you can contact them at Prudential Gouger O'Neil & Saunders 910-692-2635.

Friday Site of the Week!

The site this week is an absolute wealth of information for all things photographic. It is the Photo District News website, link here.

Seriously, there are news resources, they have a store, archives of the work of great photographers, and really interesting and informative articles.

Check it out and have a good weekend!

Skin Retouching Method

Hey everyone!

What I have for you today is a link to a tutorial that shows you one method for retouching skin for portraits. When it comes to computers there are usually lots of ways to accomplish the same goal and retouching skin is no exception. This technique will come out with a very nice airbrushed look. If you like natural, maybe not the way to go for you, but it is always good to have the knowledge in your head in case you ever need to come back for it.

You can check out the link here. Enjoy!

Picture Monday!

If you have been reading the blog, you may remember a few weeks back when I talked about building vendor relationships. Here are a couple samples that I worked up from Baxter and Taylor's wedding that I plan to bring to the florist and the cake vendor just to give you an idea what I was talking about. Now I just have to get them off to the printers!

Friday Site of the Week!

Hey ya'll. Short post today, but this week's site is http://www.dannyadamsphotography.com/ . Danny used to be an architect in Raleigh, but due to the current economic climate he has started leading deep sea fishing charters in Atlantic Beach, NC. He also takes some great photos. Take a minute and check him out!

How to post multiple images at a time on Blogger

Hello everyone!

After the technical difficulties from Monday's post I got really tired of uploading pictures one at a time to Blogger and decided to investigate. The first thing that I discovered is that you can actually upload up to 5 images at a time from the Blogger "Add Image" window. You just click on "add another image" above the browsing field. Probably could have figured that one out sooner had I just read directions.

That's all well and good, but I am still downloading a dozen images instead of just 5. I want to upload them all at once. Turns out that there is a way to do it, but it requires downloading some additional software. Luckily it is free.

You can go here to download google's image editor Picasa. Once you have it installed you simply locate the photos that you want to add to your blog, select them, and then hit the "blog this" button. That's it. Can't believe that I didn't figure that one out sooner. It does annoy me to have to use another piece of software. This would be convenient if I didn't already use lightroom to edit and catalog my pictures, but I do so now it is just two catalogs to keep up with. But, it does make blogging faster and easier so I won't complain too much.

Have a great Wednesday!

Family: Helena (Take Two)

*Yes, everyone please enjoy the x's where the pictures should be* Sorry, we were having some difficulty - most likely due to author error - but I think that everything should be up and running properly now. Please let me know if it is not. Thanks!

Helena is a friend of mine who I know through the Junior League. She also happens to really love photography. She recently discovered one of the drawbacks of being the photographer - you don't end up in any of your pictures. So, we were at a meeting one day and she tells me that she would really like some pictures of her with her kids. Did I think it would be strange to get the portraits done as a Mother's Day present to herself?

I throw myself birthday parties so of course I thought that it sounded like a great idea. We had a few false starts but we finally got the stars all aligned and got to go out and take these great, fun pictures. Helena and her kids were awesome and then everyone got to go have pizza afterwards. Even better.

Hope you like!