Engagement Session with Erin and David Engagement Photographer in Hudson Valleyl


August 16th 2021
Engagement Session with Erin and David Engagement Photographer in Hudson Valleyl

Engagement Shot of Erin and David

So here’s the first photograph of an engagement shoot that I did with David and Erin.  They were great to work with, tons of personality, and just really nice people.  I will be posting more and more photos of them as I get a chance to work on them.

For this shoot we walked around downtown Hudson Valley just finding cool stuff for backdrops, and snapping tons of pictures.  I’m glad I didn’t burn through my whole memory card on this shoot, but I sure did come close.  I took about 900 images, and have now culled that down to about 200 good shots.  I still have a ton of work ahead of me on this one, because I really want to get a ton of great stuff for these guys.

As far as the first shot goes.  This was shot at ISO 250, f/3.5, 1/200th.  The po

st process on this is going to be a little bit more involved, just because I want all the colors in the images to look great. But here’s the basic overview on this first shot:

  • First I did a little sharpening in lightroom.
  • Then I pushed the saturation, clarity, and vibrance all to about 10
  • Used an S curve for some better contrast, and upped the blacks a bit in lightroom.
  • Toned down the red saturation for this shot.
  • Then I pulled it into photoshop to duplicate the layer and set its blend mode to overlay
  • Added a oval shaped mask on this because overlay on skin doesn’t look so good, but overlay does create a great vignette effect on images with bright colors.

Here’s the black and white version just for fun:

Erin and David Engagement Shot black and white

Hope you like em.

-Dave