That's Not in the Tourist Guide!

Yeah... nothing subtle about this sign we saw in Key West behind one of the bars on Duvalle St. Over the course of a week we saw this sign several times while walking Duvalle and the "H" was never lit. My wife is convinced there wasn't even any neon in that section of the sign. Not exactly what you expect to see, but a hell of a story to tell.

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Some Times Photoshop needs to have a heavy hand.

As much as I prefer to get a shot right within the camera itself, there are definitely times where I screw it up. Most of the time it is no big deal and you have lot of other shots to choose from, but occasionally that it not the case and you have to hope that photoshop can help. These two shots were taken on a day trip to a park with my son, and both needed some serious help to be presentable. To be honest I didn't think they could be saved for a long time and was really disappointed that I had "dropped the ball" on them. Maybe I was just feeling confident one day but I finally took a shot at tying to save them and I have to say I like the result a lot. SOS it is nice to know that if I really like a shot where I messed something up with the lighting or another technical aspect that I may still have a shot at redeeming it.

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TaCL Portraits

As I mentioned in a previous post, TaCL Portraits is a new endeavor of my wife's which branches directly out of Through a Cracked Lens Photography. Links to both can also be found in the right hand column below the Library.

The primary idea for TaCL is to provide photo shoots for families with someone who has special needs, whatever they may be. Of course it is not limited to just those families. Shooting special needs families takes a different skillset which makes it difficult to take SN kids to Walmart or Sears photo studios and get something that works for you. You need to have a great deal of patience and at the same time constantly be ready to shoot and capture that fleeting moment before it is gone. It helps if there is a brother or sister involved. You can work with them until everyone is comfortable enough to join in. Since this can easily last 15 minutes or longer depending on the child, the method really doesn't work for any of the department store studios who are trying to push as many clients through as fast as possible.

So do I have these skills? I like to think I do as I have been photographing my kids for years and my son has autism.

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Eye Spy

Here are two more portraits that I took within the last month, month and a half. These shots was taken as part of a shoot done for TaCL Portraits. TaCL is an endeavor of my wife's, specializing in photo shoots for family with special needs children (although we are of course not limited to just those families.) The girl in this photo, we shall call her M, has a special needs brother but is not special needs herself. She really took to the camera and you would have thought she was auditioning for America's Next Top Model. She really seemed to have a lot of fun with everything we did and was constantly making suggestions for places to shoot and calling her brother over to be in the pictures. This was especially great to see as we were in a public place, in fact a major tourist destination and she was not phased at all by onlookers, as she constantly posed on anything in sight. Keep it up M!!

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There was one winter day...

This is just a random shot I took near Niagara Falls during maybe the only winter day so far. I just like how the ice created by the mist from the falls forms a separate spiral from the metal one as it starts to come away from it.

This shot is completely unedited.

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Zombie Horde... of a not so scary nature

This shot is one I took just prior to Christmas as part of a photo shoot for Through a Cracked Lens (TaCL) Portraits. This shot is just part of Lisa's Crew with 5 of the 7 kids present that day. I love how much fun the kids were having as they all seemed to find their inner superstar.

This shot was one of the finals that I provided to Lisa so it definitely had some minor editing done in Photoshop including the change to black and white.

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New Year will hopefully bring more Posts

Hope everyone is having a good new year so far. I will definitely be trying to post more going forward, the only drawback being I like to shoot outdoors and I hate the cold. Guess I will have to learn to like shooting insides more or get used to the cold.

This shot is from a photo shoot that I did with a family about 3 weeks ago now... wow time really flies. This is M and he is a super sweet kid and I think it definitely shows in this shot.

See you next time.

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