One of the great joys of my life is when I get to photograph a new baby. Last Saturday morning dear little Brailey came to Linda’s Lenses, to get her first formal picture session. She was so cute! I had her in four different hats or headbands, and five different outfits.
Brailey smiled and cooed and stuck her tongue out and stared at everybody. Then she wanted to stand up — oh, how much she wanted to stand up. At three months of age! And then when she was having trouble standing she got mad!
But you know, doing the photography is only half the fun. Afterwards Bill takes the raw camera files and does his magic, adjusting the color and the density and the illumination levels. (It’s wonderful because those become things I don’t have to worry so much about, when I’m trying to get just the perfect pose or smile.)
When he’s done then my second joy arrives. I get to do all the Photoshop work, where I can move and crop and change to black and white or sepia and do spot coloring and add vignettes and fix skin blemishes and whiten eyes and blur and highlight and a hundred other fun things. When I’m done, and look at the collection of perfect images, that’s when I thank God that I have this chance to make folks — particularly myself — so happy.
Anyway, the final step is when Bill turns those images into a cute little YouTube video. You can see it below.
Some of my favorite photos from Brailey’s shoot are these:
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