Family Portraits Made Stylish!

I had the pleasure of welcoming Jim and his 3 sons, Jonathan, Brad, and Michael as well as Ann, Jonathan's girl friend into the studio for family portraits. Right off the bat, they told me that they wanted fun and different shots. Me, too!

Enjoy looking at these. Be sure to click on each image to enlarge it.

You can see the rest of the images from this shoot here:

Family Portraits

This is what the studio set-up looked like:




I also incorporate Photoshop®plug-ins which enable me to apply some interesting effects like this:


I can easily change the color of the background as well as the saturation using Lightroom® and Photoshop®.


Jonathan and his main squeeze, Ann:


We began the shooting with some classic shots to get everyone relaxed.


Additionally, I processed one High Dynamic Range image. I first started with a base image in Lightroom® and duplicated it twice, once 2 stops under and once 2 stops over. I then imported it directly into Photomatix Pro® and tonemapped it using the Details Enhancer method. Setting used:
Strength 80
Saturation 42
Luminosity -1.2
Microcontrast -4.1
Smoothing +4.0
White Point .0250
Black Point .335
Gamma 1.0
Temperature +4.9
Saturation Highlights +1.0
Saturation Shadows 0.0
Microsmoothing 9.1
Highlights Smoothness 48
Shadows Smoothness 100
Shadows Clipping 0



I wasn't able to clear up the dirty shadowed look on the faces so I blended the base image with the tonemapped image to reveal the faces and background but kept the detail revealed in the jackets and jeans.



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