The last couple of months have been a blur. As a result, I have not updated my blog... Over the last three weeks I have been working on an exciting new freelance design opportunity which I am hoping to share very soon. It involves my favorite - dessert!
Last month I went out to my sister's place to take her annual family photos (this is becoming a new tradition). The day was bright and frosty - making for good camera lighting. My challenge - photographing the group with a 2 year old that did not have his afternoon nap! I now have a special appreciation for professional photographers who specialize in baby and children portraits. Nevertheless, it was a great day, and my sister has a few shots to use with her 2011 Christmas cards.
Here are two of my favorite shots.
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| Overlooking South Saskatchewan River |
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| Family Photos 2011 |
Experimenting and shooting in RAW format has forced me to create my own custom VRD recipe files. There is not a whole lot of information online as to how to work with Digital Photo Professional's Tool Palette. I suppose it is better to test all of the settings on your own to gain the best understanding. I like the ease and speed to apply brightness, contrast, color temperature settings all from one control panel. Here are my favorite recipes and their effect.
You can download my original .VRD files at the end of the post.
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| Original Photograph - Default Setting |
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| Pastel Carnival - Desaturated Color |
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| Wheat - Yellow Temperature - Softer Contrast |
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| Black and White - Soft Contrast |
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| Dark Style - Yellow with more Contrast |
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| Movie Style - Brightness Turned Down with More Contrast |
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| Sepia |
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| Coming soon - new home page for sjjdesign.com - lots of white space! |
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| medicinehatsummit.com website |
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| Baseline and column grid used for sjjdesign.com |
With no blog posts for several weeks, what have I been up to?
Since June I have been working on a major design project for a summit that will be happening in September of this year. Yes, in addition to my crazy hours with my full time design job, I have been spending time getting back into corporate design with my freelance design business - sjjdesign. It has been good working with a different industry outside of wedding design and a reminder of the challenges working as a freelance designer. This will mark one of the largest projects I have taken on independently. In July 20at30 officially turned 20at31.
In my spare time I have been still experimenting with my photography and am itching to do some traveling again end of summer. I took my camera down to the Stampede grounds to see how it would handle. Not using any kind of tripod I did get some decent shots. I do see the need to upgrade my 50mm lens on the horizon as I have been pushing the limitations lately. Now just to save up!
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