Slideshow at a wedding or for selling images.

How to have a slideshow at the wedding you are photographing. 

I am not a Wedding Photographer I've shot a few but I will always have a second shooter that is a wedding photographer by nature along with me. I love shooting the details and candid moments. Had to get that out of the way LOL.

This wedding I shot, I was thinking before the wedding that while I'm shooting the bride and bridesmaids maybe it would be great to show the bridesmaids and guest the photos from that time. SO...I bought a handy device to load my images onto my IPad and had a little slide show going at the drink table. I received so many compliments about that little slideshow! It truly was the easiest thing I have ever done with photography. I even had someone ask if I would shoot their wedding!

I am not an expert at all things wedding but I was thinking that this could also help at every day shoots. Imagine finishing up a session loading the images onto your IPad then letting the clients choose the ones THEY would want to have edited.  HUH??? I kinda like the idea. Could save some time and then you are sure they will love them because they have already chosen them.

I shot 100 or so images then loaded them while I drove to the next venue and it took all of 10 minutes if that. I was driving so I wasn't really watching when it finished. I literally popped in my camera and said load then started driving. When I got there I unplugged it then started shooting more. Oh and the best part about this I SHOOT RAW!!!! I don't know the technical side if it converts the images to jpeg (my guess) but it loaded beautifully.

The down side to this is that they are all unedited but it does offer you the option to choose the ones you would like included when loading. that took like two minutes. Also a little foot note you will want them all horizontal or all vertical because if not people will be turning their heads to the left or right and that's not a good look.

Image on the right came from here click to read more about what it is. 

I think it was 20$ at Best Buy. Definitely worth the investment. Anyway, have fun with it!

Vivid Color edit

Before and After Edit and How to

I know some of you will like the before and some the after but I wanted to do a short post on how to achieve this edit. I like for some images and I hope you can get something out of it.

Disclaimer: You should be familiar with Photoshop or you will think I'm speaking Greek. ;)

Okay first things first: To create a separation of the subject and the background you do this:
Duplicate your layer~ Filter~Blur~Gaussian Blur~ ( I like it at 10 for this)
add a mast to this layer and erase off of the subjects.

Step two:
Choose Hue and Saturation and lets lift up the Saturation just a bit.

Step Three: Create an S Curve on your curves layer

You could just add the S Curve adjustment if you wanted to like in my example.

* to make it curve you just click on the line and pull it to the desired level. try to make yours look like mine when you do this edit.

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Have fun!