Hudson Valley Engagement Photographers take on the Union Station Shot


August 16th 2021
Hudson Valley Engagement Photographers take on the Union Station Shot

Erin and David at Union Station

First off if you’re looking for an engagement photographer take a look at my [engagement photography portfolio](http://www.davebrownphotography.com/Hudson Valley-Engagement-Photographer.aspx).

I know, I know, I’m sure everyone is really tired of seeing more shots from this engagement session, but here’s the deal.  I am really trying to work on my SEO for my site which means that I need to be adding lots of content that has the kind of stuff I want people to be looking for.  Right now I’m optimizing for Hudson Valley Engagement Photographer.  I would really like to become a specialist in this, because I really enjoy taking these kinds of pictures.  It’s fun for me to see people who are really in love, loving life, and havi

ng a blast.  So for the time being you’re going to have to listen to more of this kind of stuff until I can find a better way to optimize my website for engagement photography.

Obviously I’m still going to try and give a breakdown as to what I did to this shot, so that you guys don’t get too bored.  I also really love that I changed the theme of my blog.  It allows me to post much larger photographs and worry less about how they look online when they are all small and puny.  I like it so much better now that people can see my work with a lot less clutter around it.  Although I will say that almost all of my work seems to look better on black, but you can’t win them all I guess.  I think the cleanliness of the theme adds a professionalism that I was looking for.  Be sure to let me know your thoughts on what you think of the new theme.

Here are the steps I took to get this shot:

  • First boosted saturation, clarity, and vibrance in lightroom to make the whole image seem a bit crisper
  • Then I worked on getting all the skin tones just right.
  • Then I brought it into photoshop
  • I took and created a new duplicate layer set to overlay mode.
  • Masked out the couple, because overlay makes skin look horrible
  • Then I added a gradient fill layer and changed the blending mode for that cross processed look.
  • I’m not going to tell you the gradient that I used because A. I don’t want to give out all my secrets, and B.  You should experiment and find something that works for you.

Hope ya like it.

-Dave