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I washed her up and snapped some photos before the storms rolled in.

Here are some details of it, this is a 2007 BMW 335i 2 door coupe.  I bought it slightly used (5,000 miles on the odometer)

Color: Monaco Blue Metallic / Gray Dakota Leather / Dark Burl Walnut wood trim

Engine: 3.0L Twin Turbo I6, 300 HP, 300 lb/ft TQ

Transmission: 6 Speed Manual

Options:

1. Premium Package
2. Sport Package
3. Navigation
4. Active Steering
5. Active Cruise Control
6. Comfort Access System
7. Heated Front Seats
8. Power Rear Sunshade
9. Park Distance Control
10. Satellite radio

She’s really very clean, should be a great car for years to come.

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Here is a wallpaper size of the b&w rear shot.

http://www.i2istudios.com/journal/wp-content/uploads/2008/06/_dsc9701-edit-2-2-wallpaper1.jpg

This guy was in the last wedding I was shooting, thanks for serving.

I was able to shoot team photos at Ride Cincinnati raising money for Breast Cancer.  I found the photo of the magican to be really bright, I didn’t even add any saturation!

Not much I can say about this.

This is what my dark room looks like.

I have a dual monitor setup, Lightroom on the left and Photoshop CS3 on the right.
I do the photo selection first with a series of rating and then color labels so I can easily navigate through thousands of images and then the initial tweaking in Lightroom and then move them over to CS3.

Each image can take as little as 1 minute to edit, but some need that special touch that can take 15 minutes of layers of CS3 editing or an hour or a whole day or longer to get the results I want. Sometimes I leave an image and come back to it later.

In Lightroom you can see I have several presents that give me some of my most loved effects, there are plenty more in CS3 but Lightroom gives me a great preview of the photo effects quickly.

When photo retouching and models, I typically work Photoshop at around 200-300% zoomed in. If you look closely, the sparkling wine is only at 50% right now, but that’s all that I need for this editing where I am effecting curves, colors, and saturation.

Of course, both monitors are calibrated with a ColorVision Spyder to get the prints the same colors as I see on my screens.

Here is a first pass of a fun wedding, congrats to you guys!!!

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I go to one of my favorite photography websites to do some purusing and what do I see to my surprise? A photo I took in the upper left hand corner.

For a little while you can see it here.
http://nikongear.com/

Andrew and Caroline really could not have picked a better day to have photos taken. We meetup at Ault Park in Cincinnati and here are the results.

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