Category Archives: Editing & Tutorials

Session Wrap-Up – 3 siblings in the forest {lots of luscious bokeh ahead!}

When I found out that these three gorgeous children were being brought from three hours away for their mini session with me, I was pretty honored. So here is the session round-up with a few shots worth mentioning. Camera: 5DmkII Lens: 50mm f/1.2 Weather: slightly cloudy, 3 hours before sundown Processed: Florabella Luxe II  ...

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Beloved

I’ve promised for a long time that I’m going to talk about Beloved. I mentioned it last week in this post about using the Beloved concept for the first time in a family session and it was very successful. I discovered Beloved by way of The Rock n Roll Bride blog when blogger Kat and...

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Reader Photo Friday {B&A}

Thanks to Debbie for this beautiful portrait of her daughter when she got her braces off! Processed with Florabella’s new Workflow actions + a little MCP Eye Doctor sharpening EVERYONE KEEP THOSE SHOTS COMIN. SEND YOUR {SHARP & WELL EXPOSED} PHOTOS TO EH@ELIZABETHHALFORD.COM If your photo has been featured on Reader Photo Friday and you would like to...

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Session Wrap-Up – Family session using the Beloved concept

This session was so touching I just had to jump on the wrap-up over here on my blog ASAP because I wanted to share the way I approached the whole thing before I forget! I’ve been looking into Beloved a lot lately and will write more about it very soon. But in short, Beloved is...

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First and second curtain flash in plain english

The wonderful world of flash is truly never ending. If you’ve ever been to Strobist, you may have experienced the mind-boggling amount of information there about flash photography and not known where on earth to begin. One of the most important things to get to know if you want to use flash photography at events...

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Fun With Photography: Long Exposure

There are so many things I’ve always wanted to play with but haven’t had the chance. One of them is long exposure times, particularly with night scenes. The other night our youth group had a ‘light party’ and while they were outside I played inside and this was the result: {How I took it} Canon...

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Photographers, Embrace the awkward moment

My favorite journalist is Louis Thoreaux. In my estimation, he’s the master of the awkward moment. He asks a question and then waits. He stares. Then this really akward moment usually happens where Louis could jump in and pose another question or just push past the horrible silence for an extra second and *BAM* that’s...

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Choosing a look for editing your photos {video}

Oh my goodness. Most amazing.session.EVER last week. I restrained myself from looking at a set of the photos until I could do it while filming my process for you to show you how I go about filtering through my millions of actions in Photoshop and settling on a direction to take a session in in...

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