About Winsor Photography:

Hello. My name is Tara Winsor. I am a wife, and a mother to the sweetest little miracle. I love to sleep in, and stay up late. You can often find me up until 2 or 3 in the morning editing images, or creating new things. I love music, and can often be found with headphones in my ears. I enjoy spending time with my family, and do so every chance I get. I hate being alone. I always like to have company. I crochet in the winter when it's cold. I love playing the Wii, and am trying to improve my bowling skills. I love Olive Garden and could eat their salad and breadsticks all day long. I have recently been introduced to specialty cupcakes, and am in love. I love watching "The Office" and "The Amazing Race". I really don't like being cold, at all. But I absolutely ADORE the beach, and would live on one if I could. I am a techno geek, and spend a lot of time trying to figure out, research, and play with the latest electronics. And lastly, I am a photographer. Take a look around at everything, and let me know what you like! Feel free to email me at info@winsorphotography.com or give me a call at 435-770-9367.

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    • Archive: ‘Before and After’



    Before and After {Utah Couples Photographer}

    Tuesday, March 15th, 2011

    I had the chance to go to Wheeler Farm on Saturday and take pictures of this AMAZING couple.

    But I will tell you more about this couple, when I do their blog post. :) Right now, it’s a Before and After.

    The image on the left is my before image. It is SOOC, and doesn’t have any editing done to it.

    What I did, was I added a sky since the top of the image just looked so empty, and I wanted to add some depth to it. So we added a sky, added some contrast to the image, and warmed the image up a little. Ran an unsharp mask at the end, and it was done! It took less than 5 minutes to do! If you want to see the step by step, let me know and I will see what I can do. :)

    EDTBeforeandAfter

    but enjoy, and it you want to go out and play in this AMAZING weather we’ve been having, shoot me an email at info@winsorphotography.com

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    Before and After

    Wednesday, December 8th, 2010

    It’s been a while, so I thought I would add another before and after picture, and explain what I did. :)

    This is the picture SOOC:

    Not bad to begin with, but this is where a lot of my time comes in, in making ART from just a photograph. This is where a lot of our time as photographers is. Making photos, ART.

    So here is what I did.

    I lightened the picture some, adjusted the contrast, and then burned the areas around her so she would stand out. Then I sharpened the photo a little. And now the final picture looks like this:

    Even better, right?

    Anyway..I will try to do more before and afters. :) Especially as I am having more time to “play” with photos :)

    Enjoy! And let me know what you think!

    honestly :)

    Edit: I replaced the after photo with one that I fixed the halo on. Thank you guys so much for your feedback! I was able to fix the halo with a little burning. :)

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    Before and After {Utah Photographer}

    Wednesday, August 4th, 2010

    I always enjoy looking at other before and after posts, so I thought that I would participate and show you what goes into an image. :-)

    I always look at people’s pictures and think “How the heck did they capture THAT!! I would love to!” and then I spend hours trying to figure out in photoshop how they did it. And never really figuring it out, but having fun along the way. :-) And most of the time, learning new things that help me grow anyway.

    This is where most of my time is spent, in front of the computer processing images. :-)

    I can’t tell you how a large part of me is telling me not to do this. I think it’s because I feel exposed or something. NO ONE ever sees my SOOC images. EVER. EVER. EVER. (Ok, that’s a lie, my hubby sees them when I force him to sit down and look through them with me to help me choose which ones to process. Hehe) So to post a SOOC image out there, for everyone in cyberspace to see, is a little intimidating. But I just need to breath and put myself out there right? Right.

    I hope that this will benefit at least one person out there. If it does, then I will have succeeded in life. Haha

    Ok, here is the SOOC (Straight out of Camera) image

    I open up the image in Camera Raw (since, if you didn’t know, I shoot in RAW) where I tweak the white balance, blacks, increased exposure a little, added a little fill light, and bumped up the contrast. I usually don’t play with WB, but I have been trying to get better SOOC images, so I have been manually controlling the temperature of my WB in my camera. It takes a LOT of playing sometimes to get it right.  And this one came out just a little too warm for my taste. I also sharpened the image slightly, and adjusted the colors of it slightly.  After doing that, I get this image:

    Once I have it opened in Photoshop, I saturate the colors some using the sponge tool (usually set to saturate and 35% flow) *When using the sponge tool on saturate, DO NOT use it on skin, it will make the skin red*, highlight the face and adjust contrast again to where I like it. I also add a vignette around the edges. I don’t add the vignette to ALL images. I guess it depends on the mood of the picture. I’m getting more picky as to when I use it. :-) Once those adjustments have been made, I save the image and upload it to Smugmug for my clients to view.

    But here is the final image.

    Anyway, hope you like it, and please leave a comment if you would like more posts like this, or if I am just sending these out for my own enjoyment. :-) Thanks!

    Enjoy :-)

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