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kitties photobook spreads

November 24, 2010 – 8:30 am

I’m working hard on finishing my orders with my current clients before December arrives so I can do my final holiday photo sessions and get the products off to *those* clients before Christmas. Every year I always take 14 days off starting December 23rd, so make it my goal to finish with all of the year’s work before then so I can start the new year with a totally clean slate. I finally finished the page spreads for the 8×12 photobook I’m designing of Arthur, Simba, Ocelot, Minnie Mouse, Polar Bear, Galahad and Wilbur, and wanted to share a few of my favorite spreads here. 150 images are going in a 45 page (90 spread book), so it took some engineering to make it work, but I love how the pages turned out. Photobooks are one of the most popular products I sell, and if you check out this link and look at the pictures you can see why. If you are a potential client interested in doing a photo session with me, be sure to ask to see my photobook samples. I guarantee you’ll want one of your own pooch or kitty! :-)

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kitty collage

September 29, 2010 – 9:00 am

Ok, I really can’t stand the word ‘collage’ used in conjunction with photography, but in this case the ‘c’ sounds have a nice ring to them, so there.

I recently completed and ordered a 24×36 canvas collage, ahem- storyboard (much nicer word), for a client, and wanted to post one of my favorite rejects. Here it is:

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(in case you are wondering, not every kitty’s name is printed on Minnie Mouse’s tag. lol. I added the other names for the cover of a photobook I’m designing for my client).

And here is the storyboard we ended up printing. (I really wanted this to be horizontal, but it was my client’s idea to flip the canvas vertically to fit all of the kitties, which solved all of our problems. Photographers- listen to your clients! Often their ideas are better than yours.) I can’t wait to see this when it comes back from the printer!

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This storyboard was challenging to design because of the odd number of kitties, and because ideally we wanted each image to be the same size. (There was some confusing math involved). In the future I’ll definitely use Compositor, a cool piece of software recommended to me by some followers on Facebook.

And here is another fun design you can make with Photoshop clipping masks (anyone recognize these dogs? Hint: it was a little gift I made for Sharon and these are her photos).

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Heck, when you have as many custom shapes as I do, you can make clipping masks out of practically everything. I call this next one “Fergie in Fergie”.

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oh hai!

July 15, 2010 – 5:05 pm

oh hai. my name is simba. i am a kitty jamie photographed yesterday. (she photographed my 6 brothers and sisters yesterday too, but i was the funnest because i am king of the serengeti). thanks for stopping by. you’ll see more of me soon. bye fur now!

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by the way, for the 3 of you who haven’t yet checked out icanhascheezburger or ihasahotdog yet, you simply must go there. They are hysterical.

Oh, and by the way, Simba’s eyes really look like that, sans-photoshop doctoring. They are amazing.

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Butter- from the archives

May 21, 2010 – 12:44 pm

I’m missing the kitty shoots and willing them to come my way. Look at the gorgeous coloring on this sweet girl. I wish I had a wonky whisker like that.

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