Salem High School Senior

Lacy is another beautiful senior I've had to pleasure of photographing. These girls really do make me look good. I get to thank my daughter Amanda for this referral. Amanda told her mother that I did senior portraits.  Lacy's mother is the children's minister at Forefront church and my daughter believes she is  the most amazing roll model. I enjoyed reading Becky's posts last week while she hijacked Vince's blog you should check it out.  becky's post

As you can see, we had a very sunny day.  It worked out because we didn't get started till around 6:20 in the evening. So here she is pretty much looking directly into the sun and it can happen without her squinting because it was during the golden hour.  Gorgeous day.
for this pose I chose to use the light in a more dramatic way.  I like that both eyes have light on them. I created this black and white in  photoshop's lightroom. I started with a basic black and white then used the split tone feature to tint the highlights warm and the shadows cool.  I also messed with the white balance to get the look I was after.  Once it looked good to me I saved it at a preset so I can use it on portraits in the future with a single click. Smart huh?  If I knew how to link a download for an action or preset I would share it here, but I don't have those skills.  I will look into that. (if you are computer savvy and want to share that process with me I would love to hear from you)

  
to achieve this look  I made a brown  tinted black and white, very high contrast, then added the glow filter=  this post process is my favorite of the day.