Dane Sewell

Hey friends, sorry it has taken me so long to post these. Life has been busy with the new babe and trying to keep up with my business during my "maternity leave". Here are a few photos of Dane from the last couple of months (He was born January 21, 2010). The first one is an on camera speedlight bounced off the sidewall, the rest are natural light.

A little Tonal Contrast will do ya

I did some playing around with a different technique to further finish processing pictures. It involves using the photographic software filter called “Tonal Contrast” in NIK Color Efex Pro 3. Basically the filter allows you to increase the tonal contrast (like it says) within the image as well as the color saturation. Below are “before” images processed like normal and then “after” that were further processed using the tonal contrast filter. It gives the pictures a vivid hand painted look. Without a lot of foo-fir-aaa (technical term), check them out and see what you think {click on the images to enlarge them, so you can see them better}.

My favorite is the last one of the old truck, interesting in the “before” but very dynamic in the “after”.

Some observations in trying this out, is that it works great on landscapes, objects and such, but don’t try it on people, it tends to do bad things to their skin complexion.

Hope you found this interesting, that’s it for now.

David Gralian
www.davidgralian.com
david@davidgralian.com

Holly & Sean

I haven't shot a lot of couples, so decided to make some of my friends model for me. I like how these came out. They're a bit non-traditional, but, hey... so am I. =0)

Senior Portraits

Did two Senior portraits today - I've been dying to try the David Hill lighting style so here it is with Mike, a baseball player and an available light portrait of Sarah with the beautiful eyes. I'm planning to use these for an upcoming mailer and would love some feedback.

Thanks,

Fred