Allysin Portraits (Shooting RAW for the first time!)

The company I work for is a digital media company. (You can check them out at ProChurchTools.com) And a couple weeks ago my boss was learning all about how to take headshot as part of an online course he was writing. Through this we ended up talking about RAW.

Basically RAW is a setting on cameras that means the image data it stores literally is, well, raw. It has very little processing to it. Where as JPEG images have settings already baked in to the image that you cannot change in post production. RAW images give the editor more options, and more control.

After hearing my boss talking about it in the office a couple weeks back, I decided it was time to try it out for myself. Asked my sister, Allysin, to be my model, and on a perfectly gorgeous spring Sunday we headed to the beach . . . .

Rainy Day Self Portraits

It has been uncommonly warm for a Canadian January here in Niagara Falls. Thankfully this gave me the great opportunity to run out and capture a few new self portraits to include here on my website!

I am also really exciting because I already have a couple shoots lined up for the next month or so.

One is my beautiful friend Sydney and her brand new baby boy. 

And the second one is an experimental hipster/Instagram styled shoot with a friend here in Niagara. I am really excited to start this blog and use it to document my journey in art and learning more techniques, and trying new things with photography.

If you are interested in doing a shoot, or in hiring me to capture your extraordinary ordinary moments, please contact me at: hello@roxannelois.com. 

Here's to an adventure filled 2016! :)