We are back!

Oh it’s good to be back! And already we have so much work to do…heh heh! Thank you all for being so patient while we were gone. We are now going full speed ahead on all the pictures everybody is waiting on, but slow enough to make sure everything we deliver is still 100% perfect. It’s a tough balancing act

We got back to Texas on Friday but had already met with 6 lovely brides throughout the weekend. Whew! We asked the brides whether we looked tired; they didn’t seem to think so. We hid it well I guess because we could’ve fallen asleep at any given moment due to jet lag.

During one of the meetings we got a very good question and I wanted to share it with everyone. The question was “How come you don’t give us your retouched negatives with every custom print order?” The best way I know to answer that is to give you a couple analogies. When you go to a nice restaurant to order your favorite dish, do you ask the chef to give you the recipe? No way right? How about when you buy a poster to hang on your wall? They surely are not going to give you the computer file so you can make multiple copies of it. Same thing with photography. A photographer invests a lot of time and money to make that perfect picture for you, it would be insane for him to give out the retouched negative. However, since we do give you the unretouched negatives for your personal use for a low price, don’t you think we are already very nice?

Here are some examples of original pictures vs. retouched versions to help you see why we charge a premium for the prints we sell.

Sometimes we only have split seconds to catch a moment, the exposure isn’t always perfect. This one came out a little dark.


After adjusting the tone curve, contrast, saturation, sharpness, and applying a TRA, look what happens!


The exposure is pretty good on this one.

But this is A LOT better!

I like this one a lot already. The composition is very good and it really tells the story.

Thanks to Becker’s B&W and and some sharpening, the picture now wants to jump out and say, “Look at me!!”

Pretty girls

Sharpen, saturation, and TRA was used on this one. A little vignetting also helps to get rid of some of the distractions on the right side. Even prettier now!

This is my favorite example.

What a big difference!