April 12, 2008

• Lovely Napa Valley

  Our first stop was the Nicholson Ranch where I’ll be photographing a wedding this October. The grounds and building are beautiful and the backdrop of the Napa Valley is awesome. Below is a collage of some of the photos I took there today.

  All the photographs I shot today were straight out of the camera, no retouching, no color enhancement nothing. The Canon 5D is amazing. Below is just an example of before and after in photoshop.

  

  The photoshopped image comes alive with contrast and color. The original is flat, most images from a digital camera need to be processed using some type of photoshop work to look better.

   

  

  Then we traveled back onto Hwy. 29 towards Napa and took in a few more sites, one I haven’t been at since I was ten years old was this old brick building full of specialty shops. I found a couture Bridal Designer located in the building but was asked NOT to take any photos of the gowns inside because the owner was not there, so I did the next best thing, shot a few of these spectacular gowns from the display window on the outside. Afterwards we traveled back down the highway and found this little church that was really romantic among all the vineyards then to the Rutherford Grill for one of the best meals we have ever had! My desert was the banana cream pie with a graham cracker and chocolate crust with fresh whipped cream and dark chocolate chunks sprinkled on top….1,000,000,000 calories! Ha!

  I think after touring Napa that I’m going to add it to my list of destination engagement shoots. Here are some images from our getaway along with a couple of my wife Laura.

     

   

   

   

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