The Second Response: Catching the Evening Light — Jessica Above is the RAW image unchanged as exported from Lightroom. Lightroom exports as JPEG and does add sharpening if you don’t uncheck the box (and I’m pretty sure that I forgot to uncheck the box!) Now, here is the same picture but more along the lines […]

Fourth Call: Lover of the Light — Cheryl Few people in my life get me thinking, pondering and questioning like Jessica. I had long thought of SOOC photography as being “purer” than work tweaked and streaked in Photoshop, but Jessica has turned that on its head. She’s got me thinking of the tools used by […]

The First Response: Straight Out of the Camera JPEG — Jessica I agree 95% with what Cheryl wrote. But I feel very strongly about that remaining 5%. Let me explain. I came to photography through Photoshop. I got my first copy of Photoshop back in 1994, using it to create backgrounds for Macromedia Director animation […]

Third Call: A New Year of Lessons — Cheryl The kids and I started lessons today, and it was a full one. I’m thankful I thought to grab the camera, even though I didn’t take many shots. Before taking this picture of Henry, I had warmed up with a few others, and that likely has […]

Second Call: Dancewear — Cheryl I hesitated before choosing this shot. My fingers were itching to tweak those pinks and make them a little brighter — not to achieve greater veracity (the colors are pretty spot-on), but to create a little more “wow.” The more I study the photo, though, the happier I am with […]

First Call: Condensation — Cheryl And thus we begin our second year of Call and Response. I’m excited and looking forward to new challenges and learning experiences. The month off was exactly what I needed. It was a chance to recharge the old creative batteries, and mine were seriously drained. I don’t feel like they’ve […]