Monthly Archives: November 2009

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Child Photographer – Ally – Ashley McNamara – Bay Area – Photographer

This is the last of my sessions as a San Diego resident and I am feeling a big nostalgic. Before I left San Diego my good friend Marie came to visit me and made me promise by penalty of a smack down to take her to my favorite beach. Marie lives on the east coast and I am not biased or anything but the California beaches kick all other beaches butts.

Marie had criteria though she wasn’t just going to shoot any ole person, she wanted to do a kid’s shoot on the beach with a surfboard kind of Roxy style. I did some digging in old client files and found Ally, who doesn’t love a redhead? We had so much fun and Ally was a good sport because it was probably the coldest I have ever been in San Diego, it was ffffreezing!

Note: For those of you asking when i’ll be back in San Diego the answer is January. I’ll be keeping everyone informed via my newsletter. If you are not a member send me an email and I will add you to the list. You can also email me to book your spot now before someone else does! :)

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Product Images – The Image Box – Ashley McNamara – San Francisco Photographer

One of the awesome things about owning your own business is that I get to pick the coolest products to offer my clients. I blog about our albums a lot and wanted to share something a little different. One of our most sought after products is the image box. Your image box is custom designed to fit your decor and comes with bordered 5×7 images from your session. 

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Not to exclude our fabulous albums we are now offering an even bigger variety of fun colors!

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Family Photographer – Brocious Family – Ashley McNamara – San Francisco Photographer

I am almost done with this round of San Diego sessions. This shoot wrapped up an awesome year with the Brocious family and I am so excited to be their photographer next year since they have a little BOY on the way. I cannot wait to see what she does with blue because it has been all sugar and spice so far.

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Photoshop Tutorials- Leveling the Horizon Tutorial – Ashley McNamara – Danville Photographer

It is tutorial time WHOHOO!

 Today I am going to teach a simple yet awesome technique to level a horizon. I am a camera tilter, always have been and always will be. The problem is that there is a time to tilt and a time to NOT tilt and the beach is a not to tilt sort of time. I like a nice level horizon so this is for all of you camera tilters out there.

Step 1: Open Image

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Step 2: Select the Ruler Tool. It is 20 tools down and you might have to right click to see it.

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Step 3: Once you have selected the ruler tool, draw a line across the horizon. This works on anything if you have a dresser, chair, wall. Whatever you want to straighten.

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Step 4: Once you have drawn your line select Image, Rotate Canvas, and Arbitrary. 

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Step 5: This is where the magic happens. The ruler tool calculated how much to rotate the image to make it straight. Once you click arbitrary the math is done for you so you can just click ok.

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Step 6: Now your image is straight but what about the extra canvas??

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Step 7:  You can do a couple of things to take care of the extra canvas caused from straightening your image. You can clone the white spots out or you can crop most of it out which is what I do.

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Step 8: Clone or patch any white areas that the crop tool didn’t take care of.

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Now you are all done. Super easy right?

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