My NEW WEBSITE IS UP....I took my blog and website and mushed them together to create a BLOGSITE!!! Please visit www.vogoimage.com for all my latest work!!

Hello friends! I am taking off to Europa! for two weeks...I will hopefully (cross my fingers) be able to post some pictures while I am over there. If not, I will fill my blog with photos when I return. If you have questions about your order, potential shoot or anything else, please feel free to email me, facebook me or whatever technological route you choose:)

I had SUCH a fun time meeting up with Monica and Alex. They are the HAPPIEST couple around. I am amazed that monica is even preg. She is teeny tiny! We had beautiful hot weather and my fav location at the present moment up in shady canyon irvine. I love the vast landscape. Good luck Monica!! Viewers look out for her newborns coming soon! Cheers:)

Do you love the look that the tilt shift lens gives your photo but cant afford the expensive lens...Have NO fear!! You can easily accomplish this simple look through photoshop! What would we do about photoshop...

I have had a few people ask me how to do some tricks on photoshop so I decided I would start sharing how to do them! FIRST OPEN any image...(I just clicked on one from my recent seattle trip. 

NEXT click on the "quick mask mode" button. This can be found down at the bottom left of your photoshop screen. It looks like a small square with a circle in it. 

THEN go to your gradient tool and drag the gradient line from where you want your blur to start and end. It should show up red where you drug.

THEN click the deselect buttom. Marching ants should appear along the opposite border or where you drug. You then need to click on "Inverse" to inverse the selection so it is around the area that you DO want blurred out.

NEXT go to FILTERS>BLUR>LENS BLUR. Your area that you want blurred should show up blurred. You can play with the settings a little bit to get it exactly how you want. Click ok and VOILA you have a tilt shift image!!

Tip...Alot of times I saturate the images color to make it pop more where the area is in focus

 

I can NOT believe that SUMMER is here already...I have been as busy as a bee and just returned from Seattle. I had such a great time up there. I absolutely love the city even with its gloomy weather. We saw everything the city has to offer including a giant donut the size of my face! I ended up with sugar lips all day long. However, we had amazing weather. I am so grateful for the chance to be able to travel all over this crazy world. Every place offers something so unique and different. Here are a few random images from the trip...I promise more blog posts to come...LOTS of babies in the mix...CHEERS!