B.O.Y.S.

So this is a Super Friday Picture Post! Looks like I'm averaging about a week to process pictures, and I'm coming up with around 30 or so keepers from each session. Still need to become more fluid with the camera and the lighting, and I know this is only going to happen with constant practice. And let's talk about CS3 for a minute. I've always had Photoshop, it's saved me in the past with brightness and contrast, but it would be a beast to work with because of how slow my computer was. Just opening up a RAW image took (at the very least) a full minute. Then sliding the scales over to the right or left to adjust images took another minute, and god forbid you didn't like the way that it looked, and you wanted to slide it again. Crap. Another minute. It was soo painfully slow that I was very near the point of slitting my wrists and wanting to just call it a day...and then to have to save it as another file in another folder of another application- just slap me in the face, and call me your bitch, why don't you???

Now, with the MacBook Pro, CS3 flows like a dream. Like Beefcake swimming through an ocean of pork fat mixed with butter with her mouth open wide.  Not only that, but I can keep multiple pages of the web browser up (you know- to download free textures from Flickr), run iTunes, keep Aperture open to retrieve photo files, and edit with CS3 without any hiccups. After all this time, I know what the Seed was talking about. Magic!! What I did with these photos in the last week, would have taken me nearly a month on my old computer. God Bless all things fast, simple, user friendly, and well- Apple. I also probably need to mention that the blue wooden backdrop I'm using for my pics was found on Deviant Art.  Thank you, Harry Bundles, for the tip. It's a great site.

So here is the work I've been doing. I just threw up a random picture of Ryder since- the blog is called Blue Ryder. You can see more of him here on Flickr for the 4th of July pics. To see M & C's wedding photo set, go here, and to see Ryder's Godfather in all his glory, head on over here!!

Happy, Happy Friday, and Happy, Happy viewing!  Helllooooo weekend, and Hellloooo more shooting...