Kim sent me an email last with with an editing request. I was thrilled to hear from Kim as her son has been featured in my Before and After postings before (click here), and he really is such a handsome boy. Although the editing for this photo was relatively simple, I thought this would be a good opportunity to reintroduce a workflow action that I used to use before Squeaky Clean.With this edit, I started in Adobe Camera Raw, but really didn’t need do much of an adjustment. I cropped the photo to a 5×7 ratio and then made a curves adjustment to create a little more contrast (as you...

This week’s Shutter Love Tuesday theme is “cakes.” I don’t have many cake images so it wasn’t difficult to select my entry. Unfortunately, I cannot accept credit for the baking of this particular cake…only the photograph.This summer I attended my friends’ (Caroline and Jason) engagement party. When I arrived, I was asked if I could take some pictures for them…of course I was happy to accept (those pictures were posted here). Well, Caroline and Jason got married this past weekend. My friend Courtney shot their wedding, so I chose to leave my...