Family Portrait FAQ

Family Portrait FAQs:

Q. How many poses may I select with my print credit?
A. As many as you like! There is no set number of poses, whether you are using your print credit or purchasing a la carte prints. (The only exception to this is wallets, which are printed four at a time. Divide your included number of wallets by four, and that’s how many poses may be selected for your wallets! For example, if you order 40 wallets, you can have up to 10 poses.)

Q. What are digital files?
A. High-resolution Jpegs. Digital files come on a beautifully labeled DVD in a personalized case. You get to choose which digital files you would like- there are always some included in each package, and you may purchase any number of additional files. Purchasing the digital file of a photograph grants you the right to print and copy them as much as, and wherever, you want!

Q. What is re-touching?
A. No one likes to see a good photograph ruined by a scab or pimple. Proofs (including online proofs) will not be re-touched. Any purchased prints (those included in your package, and those purchased a la carte) will be re-touched to remove acne, scars/scabs, and other problems. Special effects will also be applied! Photographs used in albums, books, or other gift items are also re-touched.

Q. Can I include more people than the package includes?
A. Of course! Contact me for more information and a price quote for the addition.

Q. What are online proofs?
A. Within a week, your non-retouched proofs will be posted online for you to view and make selections. Share the link with family and friends! (A small collection of re-touched “Photographer’s Faves” will also be posted, to demonstrate special effects)

Q. Where will the photographs be taken?
A. I live in a gorgeous, picturesque town called Dewitt- it has a wonderful flowing stream, gazebos, forested walking trials, and more. And since I am so close to Lansing, there is a huge number of unique locations nearby! If you prefer to have your photographs taken in your area, that’s no problem at all. (Keep in mind that long distances may incur travel charges.) The beach, the forest, rail-road tracks, even specialty places like a cider mill or your own home are all excellent ideas. Let’s chat, and pick a great place!

More questions? Call or text me at 734.649.4279, or email me at emailheatherwallace@yahoo.com! Talk to you soon!

Workflow: How I do What I Do Part One- RAW Files

Being a photographer is MUCH more than pressing a button… and most of the work begins when the image is uploaded to my computer. Why? This series of posts will show you the process

Let’s start with a photograph from my latest senior session with Chynna Willard! Here is an un-edited copy of the original file- this is straight-up from the camera:

 

This is a great photo- I like the composition. The guitar is at a great angle, and the one loose shoe lace is a great touch for her personality. I like the angle of the park bench, and the background looks good. BUT, this photograph doesn’t look very attractive right now, does it? The colors are kind of blah, it’s too dark, and there isn’t enough emphasis on her face!

This is where the work begins. Having figured out what I like and dislike about this photograph, I open up Adobe Bridge and start to work on the RAW image file.

What is a RAW file? Wikipedia lists RAW this way: “A camera raw image file contains minimally processed data from the image sensor of either a digital camera, image or motion picture film scanner. Raw files are so named because they are not yet processed and therefore are not ready to be used with a bitmap graphics editor or printed.” Uh…yeah. So, basically, RAW is exactly what the camera sees. JPEG and many other formats are the camera’s best guess of how things really looked to you.

I prefer working in RAW because I am a better judge of how the photo should look than my camera, although cameras are getting very good!

It’s kind of like this: if someone wants you to translate Chinese into English, so they can read it, it may be easier to use Babelfish and then correct the inaccuracies, but it’s WAY more accurate to just translate it personally from scratch, if you know the language.

Using RAW enables me to “translate” the date to exactly how I want it to look. I have much more room to manipulate a photo this way. When you allow a camera to “translate” the photograph for you, it tosses out the information that it thinks isn’t important. This saves time and space, but what if you really did need that information? When using RAW, all the information is still there, giving me more “raw” ingredients to cook up a photograph with!

So, let’s get back to the photograph! After tweaking the RAW file using Adobe RAW, here is what we get:

That’s a little better, isn’t it! The colors are much warmer and more saturated, and there is much more contrast. Now we can see how the dark colors in the bench and Chynna’s clothing are going to make her face really stand out! Now the file is all ready for the finishing touches in Photoshop.

This is the final photograph. I went with a dark, highly saturated vintage look in this photograph. I bumped up the color saturation and “spot darkened”. The slight vintage tint was made by taking the black in this photograph and tinting some areas blue, and tinting other colors just slightly. I also lightened her face in comparison with the rest of the image. 

Let’s compare the original RAW image side-by-side with the finished product!

Yup, I like the second one better.

Of course, depending on the photograph, there is a lot of other step in between RAW and AWESOME. More next time!

Luv,

Heather Kanillopoolos

www.rememberforever.wordpress.com

Michelle and Joe’s Wedding Preview!

THIS WEDDING WAS AWSOME.

First of all, CONGRATS to Michelle and Joe!! The wedding was rained out but still went smooth, and everyone had a great time! I have a TON of photographs to go through, sorry for the delay! I’m moving out to Lansing next Tuesday and everything is crazy right now, so bear with me!

I’ll have more photographs available for veiwing and purchase (a bunch of awsome group shots, everybody!) in a week or less at the main site- I’ll post when they’re up. For now, enjoy this wedding goodness!

Please don’t forget to leave a comment on your favorite photographs. These are on Facebook, too, (http://www.facebook.com/album.php?aid=113073&id=29040796388&ref=mf) so be sure to tag yourself! Feel free to share the link around!

Don’t forget to become a fan on Facebook! (Here: http://www.facebook.com/pages/Pinckney-MI/Infiniti-Photography/29040796388)

Love, Heather

The Day started at 8am, with Michelle’s hair appointment. You better belive I was chuggin’ Coka Cola ^-^
Michelle, of course, got her hair done at Monica’s Salon in Dexter. (http://www.facebook.com/album.php?aid=113073&id=29040796388&ref=mf)
Sarah, the elevator girl XD

Love the details here!

I was a little bit dubious when Michelle first told me that the wedding would be “rainbow” colors… but I have to say, you guys ROCKED it! I love the mix of colors..

Sushi is really a very good idea for pre-wedding snacking. It’s filling and healthy (and tasty!!), but it won’t make you nauseaous. Just go easy on the wasabi

Michelle looksgood even with a mouthful of raw fish XD

Which is harder- finding the dress… or putting it on??

I love corset back dresses <3

This was actually an accidental effect! I think next time I’ll do it on purpose.

Isn’t that bead flower thing awsome?!?

Everyone was anxiously looking forward to the bridal party arrival…

A beautiful ceremony.

During the ceremony, Joe and Michelle gave thier mothers flowers of appreciation.

A group prayer/hug to send Joe and Michelle into marriage right!

Michelle, the look on your face is priceless XD …Michelle and Joe used a cake topper featuring thier engagement photographs! (Thier card box did as well)

Joe and his lovely mother…

A portrait with Grandma

Yay for random portraits!

Awww you guys are so cute!!

More randomness! Yay!

The colors in this photograph totally make me want lemonade

So…. the wedding is over. What do we do? Hang up our daning shoes and call it a night? OF COURSE NOT! Why go to bed when…

you can go for a SWIM!

…Joe and Michelle take the plunge….

…and the ‘maids head to the hot tub!

Rained out wedding…

Jpoe and Michelle’s wedding, 2 hours to go! At the hotel room, takin pics of the girls getting ready… here’s one from the salon earlier…

Love all!
-Heather

Michelle and Joe’s Wedding, tommorrow!

Just a really quick post, guys! Loved this photograph, and can’t wait for the wedding tommorrow!!

Love you all!
-Heather

Me and the Family at the Fair

Okay: I always knew this, but I didn’t really KNOW this, until now: getting engaged makes your life CRAZY!!! Well, we had our wedding shower last weekend, I managed to find a day job in Lansing, where we will be moving, and speaking of which, we got an apartment lined up! I’ll be moving to Dewitt within the month! It will be great to be closer to Landon. And let’s not forget the photography stuff, too! I’m shooting Joe and Michelle’s wedding tommorrow! It will be my first outdoor wedding, and I heard the weather is supposed to hit the 90’s, yikes! Looks like I’ll be wearing a summer dress instead of my classic black pants… trying to convince myself not to wear the totally awsome high heels that I mangaed to get on sale at DSW last week, while getting my wedding day shoes. Oh, and the wedding dress is all set, over at the tailor’s to get minor adjustments and steaming.

Oh, yes, life is crazy. But not to crazy to stop and have fun! A few weeks back, I got to go to the Fowlerville fair with my dad (Ken), brother (Sam), and sister (Alexis). Do I have pics? Of course I do, silly!

Love you all! – Heather

My sister, on the tiwster. CRAZY PERSON. YOU ARE CRAZY. I’m certainly not getting on this puke-inducer!

Classic ride…. curse my motion sickness! Sissy had fun, though.

Having too much fun is illegal, so we got arrested. Yup.

So I figured while we were in jail, we better get pics of our bad selves…

…while Jeff (my Dad’s roomate) and Hailey, his daughter, had lunch…

Can you see me in his glasses? ^-^

XD Sam totally looks like he’s stealing Dad’s wallet or something.

I don’t have any pics to prove it, but I DID go on the big slide thingy. My motion sickness isn’t THAT bad, haha!

This farmer dude was teaching the kids at the fair about farm animals… his dog did tricks!

Sam was cool and shared his candy apple with me

Hailey was the only one small enough to get on the bumper boats, of course. We’d sink it XD

Ferris wheels are kewl.

The veiw on the farris wheel is the best <3

What a cutie!

I got talked into going on the Apple spinner things with my sister, who is a spinning fan. :p However, I didn’t puke!! Yay!

Hailey likes to spin, too.

Hailey loved her pony ride. ^-^

Sam stole my camera and took a pic of me! Good composition, though!

Sissy’s reaction to my wussy reaction to spinning rides.

Off to the animal barn, to see the farm animals…

This photo is awsome!

Sissy rode the twister… AGAIN… while Sam and I were on the farris wheel…

Alexis is queen of the twister!!

Michelle, Joe, and Joey

Hey everybody! It’s been a crazy couple of months as I wrap up a couple of weddings and work on my own wedding coming up in September… this week I got the chance to get with Michelle, Joe, and Joey for a very unique engagement session! They wanted to include thier son when they had thier photographs done- he’s a very important member of thier family!

Hope you love these photographs like I do, guys! Can’t wait for the wedding, August 8 here we come!

We went out to the Hudson Mills Metropark Thursday morning- it was rainy, and just wet enough that the light was diffused through the clouds. I love it! <3

Unlike some brides, Michelle gets to have TWO special rings- a Mommy ring and an Engagement ring!

I love this vintage look. You guys rocked this shot!

We got rained out on Thursday, so we headed out Friday to the Pinckney town square park. Joey was having a blast on the park gear….

And so was dad! XD




All in all, it was a great shoot, and I can’t wait to show off more! See you next time!
*blowing a kiss*
-Heather

Wedding Teaser- Jason and Laura

Hi everyone! I know I’m doing things a little bit backwards here- I promised the rehersal teasers first- but I couldn’t help myself, I had to share these awsome shots! More will be coming soon…

Jason and Laura met at Home Depot, where they work, and altough it took many years (!), Jason eventually won Laura’s heart… click to see the photos bigger, and don’t forget to comment! -Luv, Heather

Jason and Laura- Engagement Photographs

Here are the sneak peek photographs of Jason and Laura’s engagement session! The full set will be up soon at the site.  (www.infinitiphotography.zenfolio.com) You can clicka photography to see it larger. To see full size, right click and select “Open Image”. I had a great time creating these images- I’d love to hear what you think, so please leave your comments on the photographs below!   Love, Heather

Fall Ketchup

Hi there everyone! Just doing some mid-winter cleaning, and I discovered that I had forgotten to post this awsome session! I loved trying out different locations, and Susan picked some great outfits! You can click to see each photo larger. Enjoy! _Love, Heather