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Fall Sports is Here!

25 Saturday Aug 2012

Posted by rdphotoservices in Action Sport Portraits, CHS Football, High School Sports, Imagine! Nurturing your Passion!, Sport Events

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Action Photography, CA, Cheer, Claremont, Claremont High School, Claremont High School Cheer, Claremont High School Marching Band, Football, Great Oaks High School, Sports Photography, Wolf Pack

CHS Varsity Football Team

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The dog days of summer are winding down…and fall is in the air- ok…not in Southern California where the days …

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Small Business Highlight

29 Wednesday Feb 2012

Posted by rdphotoservices in Portrait Project 365, Small Business Highlight

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Claremont, claremont ca, Portrait Project 365, Small Business

Small Business do not stand alone.  Without a great product or service, the support of our neighbors and community, small business wouldn’t exist!  To support our small business Portrait Project 365 will highlight a small business at least once a month.

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Portrait Project 365

12 Thursday Jan 2012

Posted by rdphotoservices in Action Sport Portraits, Kids, Portrait Project 365

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Baseball, Claremont, claremont ca, girls water polo, Kids, Little league, Park, Pony League, Portrait Project 365, portraits, water polo

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Wake up Robin “Just Get Over It!” Wow! Five exciting Portraits in Five Days!  It was a little hard as …

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Backroom Magic!

11 Wednesday Jan 2012

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Yesterday’s Portrait Project 365 image of Lauren listening to her coach is a beautiful portrait of this athlete.   But there is a lot more than just shooting a well exposed, realistic image to getting a great portrait that clients can’t wait to display in their home.

I shot several images of Lauren (mostly hoping that she would look over towards me) but she is an intense athlete that can not be distracted from listening to her coach.  Take a look at the top image.  It is a “raw*” image unprocessed directly out of the camera.  Sort of flat but an ok image.  The image below is the final processed image with a little extra work done in Lightroom and Photoshop to remove the distracting athlete behind her.  Nik software ColorEfex was used to soften the tonal quality of her face.  I like using it on portraits to create a glistening dew like complexion.

The Technical stuff made easy to understand:

*  Many cameras (available on consumer/pro cameras) allow you to choose the format that the image saved as.  Although many people use JPGs I choose to mainly shoot raw.  JPGS is a convention of saving certain data (throwing away the data that is not in it’s logarithms) to create a pleasing image from averages (average exposure, white balance etc.)  Shooting “raw” allows the camera to save all the data collected by the sensor.  The image is not viewable/printable without being “processed.”  There are many applications to process raw data images.  I discovered Adobe’s Lightroom several years ago.  It is an affordable application (approx. $200).  It is really easy to learn to use and there are lots of online free tutorials available.  The glory is that although you should strive to nail the exposure and control the white balance (enabling control of reliable color representation) you can adjust the exposure by several exposures up or down and adjust the white balance.

Did you realize there was so much work to prepare the images?

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Backroom Magic!

10 Tuesday Jan 2012

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High School Varsity Water Polo Player Lauren M intently listens to coaches instructions.  Portrait Project 365

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