Before & After | clean up.

I really love simple images.  Whenever I’m in the editing process I invest a lot of time in perfecting the image.  In the “before” image below, I couldn’t avoid certain distracting elements.  So in the post-processing stage I spent some time making them disappear. For those of you interested, this is how I edited the [...]

Before & After | the wide angle shot.

I’m always proud to post my before and after pictures because most of the time I don’t think I can achieve those after pictures.  Those “after” pictures are serious accomplishments for me. Before I start an editing project like this or one that requires a lot of work (like a disappearing man), I’m not always [...]

Before & After | Disappearing Man!

There he was in plain sight.  That bright blue shirt taunted me.  I stared at the picture, kicking myself for not noticing this man when I shot the picture.  In an otherwise cute picture, there sat a blue-shirted man directly behind Stef.  I was ready to give up on the picture when Richelle volunteered to edit [...]

Before & After | Erin!

For the most part, I don’t do a lot of editing on my pictures, if anything just color and white balance.  However, when I saw this picture of Erin, I knew it need some umph!  The first picture is the finished product. The second one is straight out of camera. Here’s what I did: – [...]

Before & After | warm, summer seattle sunset

Below is an edit of picture from the Golf Course at Newcastle right outside of Bellvue.  The picture straight out of camera is decent.  I loved the colors, but thought it was too blue and wanted to see more of the golf course.  I don’t know how to technically take a picture that could expose [...]

Editor’s Paradise.

Did you know I edit pictures? Well, I do! I edit for Junshien Photography, and it’s an editor’s paradise. There’s never a shortage of work.  Junshien is so organized and easy to work with. Much of the time his couples are gorgeous, like Susan and Daniel. Here’s one of Junshien‘s many engagement sessions (that I [...]

Before & After | A desert photo shoot.

Here’s a before and after picture of a picture by Richelle that I edited. Here’s what I did…. – adjust curves, levels and color – apply lux soft at 10% – sharpen, increase contrast and increase blacks in the eyes – smooth my furled brow – brighten my clothes – get rid of the hair [...]