the lovely kelly joined me a few sundays ago with samantha of illustrious day spa.  we were shooting stephanie (i'll post one of her pictures next) and our second model texted to cancel.  don't even get me started on models and cancelling or not showing up or being late.  grr.  anyway, kelly stepped in to be our afternoon model and we had a lot of laughs.  this photo was one of my favorites.  in the retouched photos, i fixed some stray hairs, added some more bangs, did a little work on her skin and then played around with some finishes/photo treatments?  which one is your favorite?

i tend to neglect the gradient tool in photoshop and saw some really neat work in a model mayhem portfolio that inspired the work below.  just playing around with gradients. too lazy to use the pen tool tonight. i used the magnetic lasso at a pixel feather of 1 and then covered up any "mistakes" with the paisley, the crown and the 'glow'.

so christina has been telling me about matt cusson for over a year now.  he's wicked talented.  wicked down to earth.  wicked check him out here and here too. matt joined the photoshoot at bella nova salon (in foxboro, ma) a few sundays ago.  yes.  i am still working on these photos.  ;)

here is a before and after on mr. matt cusson.  the biggest changes include fixing the distraction (me) in the reflection of his sunglasses and then adding some contrast and grunge to the image.  holler!  KMD

oh look!  a link to my old website of wedding work!  :)

posts coming soon!  :)

i will be posting some of my new artwork here on this blog!  in the meantime, check out some of my older work here at deviantart.