We have just launched our 2011 Senior Rep Search at Aric Becker Photography and the Senior Experience!
Who is eligible? Uprising seniors graduating in 2011.
What’s in it for you? Our Senior Rep Program is a way for Class of 2011 Seniors to earn free stuff and get amazing senior portraits, while helping us show off the latest styles and update our senior images!
Here are the details..just fill this out..and hit submit. SENIOR REP BENEFITS… A Free Session! Bring 3-4 fun, funky and fashionable outfits.
You will receive your session FREE!
Rep Discount Cards – 50 custom cards with your name and image to get you started and other special products
Website, Blog & Facebook – are some of the places in which you may appear!
You DON’T have to be a perfect model size or look like a model to get IN. We base our decision on personality, activities and eagerness to be in the program. We are looking for models that truly appreciate the Senior Experience quality, and can see the difference in our work. ONLY a limited number of Senior Reps are accepted from each school! If you meet our requirements…sign–up today!
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I wanted to share some Before=(straight out of camera) & After=(TLC from Aperture & Photoshop) images. I am asked why print prices are the way they are. Before digital, photographers would drop off their film, pick it up show proofs and order prints. Now, I edit through hundreds sometimes thousands of images from a session or wedding down to a manageable number. Then from those the client will choose their favorites or I will design a wedding book. With digital, I am the photographer, color corrector, photo lab, and book designer.
One of the differences between professional photographers, and amateurs or hobbyists, is the presentation and finishing of the photographs. Images shown straight out of the camera may be fine for proofs, but for prints and albums and any final presentation, we like to "massage" our images and give them some TLC in Photoshop.
I use Aperture & Photoshop to enhance the images, not to really make the images. It should add to the image, and never get to the point where it takes away from it. Effects that are applied just for the sake of applying them, are useless to me.
I use Aperture for most of my "massaging" and use Photoshop about 10% of the time if I want to add a little extra to an image or change it to black & white.
Here are a few examples: This first image of one of my gorgeous senior clients from this year, is SOTC "Straight Out of The Camera". If you look at it by itself, it's not half bad. The light is great, it's a good exposure, good angle, and it is certainly acceptable...
The above shot is nice but we can improve on it a little. A little color correction, contrast bump, little glow to the skin and some sharpening with a little vignette.
SOTC:
Little color correction, contrast, lighten a little to bring out the eyes more, Sharpen.
SOTC:
Color correction, contrast, my black & white action in photoshop, sharpen, vignette.
SOTC:
Color correction, contrast, my special TLC in Aperture, TRA (Totally Rad Actions) grunge rock 20% in Photoshop, sharpen.
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We are really excited for this upcoming wedding season. To serve our clients in a special way we are creating all our 2010 couples their very own site...Alas "Couples Site". No more cheesy ad sites. These will be custom made to the couple with their casual portrait session images and all their wedding day info. After the wedding they will show case their wedding book design and pictures. Below you can see what the site could look like before and after the wedding.
Here are two samples (click on couples name to view full site):
Daniel + Lauren's Couple Site
Loran + Katy Couple Site
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