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Please just look at this, I am in LOVE! :)

Unlocking the secrets of RAW

I just recently last Wednesday evening, nope... It was Tuesday. I did a shoot with a coworker of mine and the Murray Pool. His name is Parker. I told him I wanted to try something new and shoot in RAW, he understood the idea very little but enough that he knew it was a bigger file then JPEG which indeed, it is VERY much bigger. After I got home and got the images on the computer I couldn't view them and I was confused. Although I never can view the images on the computer because the files are to big for the video card I have, so that's why I move them over to my external hard drive and view them on my MAC so I figured it wasn't to big of a problem. Once I had them on my Hard Drive I ran down stairs excited to see the results of my shoot, but once I plugged it in. I Still couldn't view them... Thoughts going through my mind "Oh no what will I do???!?!" "Shoot, how am I gonna show him how they look?!" "Crap.." So I frantically started to search the internet for the reason why I couldn't view these images... Nothing was helping me and I was desperate for an answer! I finally came upon a website that I had viewed a couple times and click a couple of the links. One of the links sent me to this adobe page that would allow me to download files that would help me to be able to view them if I had photo shop CS6 but since I use CS2 that didn't help at all. I went back to that page of links (Forum) and I had the feeling to scroll down to the bottom of the page, so I did so and I saw someone say if you had a T2i you need to look at this page, so I clicked the link excitedly thinking maybe I had my solution! I looked at all the updates looking for my camera and Finally I found it! I downloaded a program called Adobe DNG converter 5.7 and it converts my Canon Rebel T2i RAW images to a DNG image, then I can edit them on Photoshop and get my image to a JPEG and output my sources online for everyone to see! :) I did it ALL by myself and I feel great! Now, here is a Before and After shot to show you all what my edit looked like before and after with RAW! :)

Updates on Models

Lets see, since I last updated I just threw in some of my new stuff that hasn't been put up on here yet. I had to add another picture of Jenna, Suzi is here, Jos and I did another shoot, and I just did a shoot the other day with a coworker named Parker for fun!

Jenna's Seniors

For Jenna's Senior Pictures we went up to the Garden Park Ward, we got some beautiful shots and then the next day we took some inside, I don't have the studio pics done yet, but everything else is up on the 2012 page!

Studio Shoot

        As I am here waiting for Jenna to be done with her Dance Co. Practice I am working with the studio lights! I'm here using the school's studio and we are going to do the 2nd half of our shoot in here so she can have a picture for her hallway like the rest of her sisters. I am really excited to do this! When I have the money later on in life, if I am still interested in photography, which I really hope I am, I want to buy a studio set up and have it set up in the basement where the rest of my set up is set up right now. I have the MAC down there, as well with the rest of my man cave which includes the xbox, wii, game cube, 3 tv's, my food stash, 2 love seats, a lazy boy, and a foutan, and a matching chair to one of the love seats, a coffe table, and an entertainment center full of games and other du-hickies! Pretty sweet set up, right? I sure think so.
         Back to the whole studio lighting, what I will be using for Jenna's shoot. I have the backdrop which is a grey and white splotched and then 2 lights with a light box on it that makes it so the lights aren't to harsh on the subject, and then any props that she ends up bringing which for sure is going to be her guitar!
         She should be here in a couple of minutes so this is where I sign off, if I have time in here after the shoot is done, I will for sure report if it is a success or not!