Beauty Surfacing

I worked my butt off yesterday finishing up LaTusha's wedding photographs. I've been enhancing all the best ones using Photoshop and Jason has been teaching me new techniques everyday. He recommended I turn one black and white and I proceeded to provide a few others in black and white using a few different methods. When I was finished I had to show Jason all the ones I worked on and he was so impressed with my work. It felt great to feel like I've finally accomplished creating something beautiful. This was my first solo gig and I really feel these photos were my best to date. I hope LaTusha and Carlton feel the same way once they review them.


I would love to get some positive feedback on my actual photographs verses getting positive feedback on my work ethic and personality. Not to say that getting those positive remarks isn't great, but actually hearing that the product I'm delivering is exactly what they were hoping for would be even better.

The Digital World

Yesterday I started working on SuNn's photos. Remember she's the up and coming female rap artist I took various city pictures of for her album, portfolio, website, etc. I asked her and her manager to pick their favorite pics and I would take those and Photoshop them. I'm really enjoying the process. In other words I'm enhancing them with a computer program called Adobe Photoshop. It's so funny since I came from a mindset of keeping film and photos organic. I used to hate the idea of digital video when film made the moving images raw and grainy, giving it texture and life. I loved going through the dark room process, developing your photos with a sense of artistry and wonder. It was hard work and involved a lot of strange chemical smells. I now really appreciate the digital world. Where mistakes can happen, since you have a memory cards fitting over 500 pictures on each one. You can take as many pictures as you want. Knowing that at least one out of every 30 or so will be stellar. Then you go home and load them into a computer. Going through and picking your favorites to manipulate creating unique masterpieces. Same with digital video, all the same steps apply and you don't have to send the film out to be processed. Time is not a factor anymore. It's amazing and I'm really enjoying learning all digital photography has to offer.