Visual Thoughts

Normally you don’t schedule an engagement portrait session outdoors in November because the weather can be unpredictable. In the case of Angie and Mike, they weren’t going to let that stop them. As it turns out, luck was on their side and they had about the best day you could ask for — partly cloudy, mild (40 degrees), and no wind.

Angie is the younger sister of a Lindsay, whose wedding I photographed last year. I’m thrilled that I have the opportunity to work with their family again — they really know how to have a good time and are so much fun to work with.

Here’s a sneak peak at the engagement pictures, enjoy the show!

On Saturday we did a marathon photo session at the Arboretum — four sets of kids.  Ok, maybe that’s not quite a marathon, but it was a good workout nonetheless.  Luckily, the weather was absolutely gorgeous and the Fall colors were peaking.  Here’s a sampling of the pictures — there are more to see on my Fickr page.

This past weekend I had the joy of photographing Jenny and Scott’s wedding.  They were referred to me by a mutual friend (thanks Danielle!) and are just a wonderful couple.  They had their reception at the Lumierre center on the South side of Madison.  This is the first time I’ve been there and I can’t believe I haven’t been there before.  There is a picturesque old red barn that just screams to be included in the pictures.  On top of that, the reception ended with a bonfire and s’mores.  What else could you possibly ask for?

These photos and more are viewable at www.Flickr.com/joshgormley.

Here are some of my favorite shots from a recent wedding I did in Milwaukee.  Kate and Mark are such enjoyable people to be around, I wish them the best luck.  They had such a beautiful wedding and it shows in the pictures.

Recently, I wanted to do a batch process on a bunch of images and I wasn’t able to use Photoshop Actions to get what I wanted.  Basically, I wasn’t able to properly position a newly created text layer relative to the lower-left corner of the image.  So, being a geek of sorts, I looked into Javascripting the task.  I’ve known for quite some time that this was an option, but I never gave it any time or effort.

As it turns out, scripting Photoshop is not too difficult and there are a ton of uses for doing so.  My first attempt is a success, I now have a script that will take an image and create a nice border around it, add my name to the lower-left corner, and then export it for web.  Not ground-breaking by any means, but it does exactly what I need it to do and I can reuse it as many times as I need.

Here is the script if anybody is curious — I’m sharing it with the community, no strings attached. Download the script.

–UPDATE– My next post shows off images that were processed with this script.  yay!