Provo Silverstrand Photography Winners

Meet Mary and Rachel!

These two girls are sisters who were the lucky winners of our most recent Silverstrand Photography drawing at SubZero located at Brigham's Landing in Provo, UT!  How fun... to get some fun pictures with your sister!  I want to do that with my sisters!  They were both very photogenic and lots of fun!  We were able to get a lot of great pictures of them.  Congratulations again girls!

If you are interested in entering to win a free sitting fee and a free 8x10 enlargement... go to SubZero in Provo and fill out an entry form.  The next lucky winner could be you!

Provo Photography in a Parking Lot

Jared and I had the opportunity to attend a few seminars that Kenneth Linge offers at his studio in Orem, UT. The most recent being Kenneth's Photographing People Part II. We have learned a lot from him. Jared and I took the pictures below during the class. All of them were taken in a parking lot in Orem, with cars every where! Yes a parking lot! It's amazing the kind of images you can get without a fancy studio or needing to travel very far. Some of them were taken at sunset...and some after the sun went down. There is no excuse if the sun went down or if there's not a pretty place to take pictures! :) You can still produce great images!

Photoshop & Photography Tips - Lesson I - Color Snap - Provo Photography

Here is an example of a Photoshop technique that I like to call "Color SNAP". I love photography, obviously... and I also love scrapbooking. I believe my skills in scrapbooking have been pushed to new heights since I have started using things I've learned in Photoshop on my images. Instead of just using my images right out of camera I like to give them a little "Color SNAP".

If you want to try this on your own... you must first realize there are MANY ways to do this in Photoshop.  This is just one way to get this effect.  

1. Open the image in Photoshop
   
2. Open the Hue/Saturation adjustment layer
   
3. Slide the saturation "slider" to the right.  (Not TOOO much though)  You still want the skin to look natural.
   
4. Open the Brightness/Contrast adjustment layer
   
5. Slide the Contrast "slider" to the right.  (again...don't over do it)

And there you go...

This will cause the image to jump off the page.  Below is an example I did for you.   Notice that the before image now looks a little hazy or fogy...when you originally may have thought it looked fine.  The second image has a lot more POP!

Stay tuned for more Photoshop Tips and Techniques in the future!

BEFORE IMAGE (right out of camera):

AFTER COLOR SNAP was applied: