Raeanna Johnson named Miss Wisconsin 2011

Posted on February 20, 2012 by Dennis Clayton

Raeanna Johnson was recently named Miss Wisconsin 2011, after taking over for Laura Kaeppeler who was crowed Miss America. Raeanna platform is Empowering Women, Facebook Link, and her talent is ballet. She is a very nice person who I am sure will do great things in her life. This past week I had the pleasure of photographing Raeanna for her official Miss Wisconsin portrait and these are a few of the poses she selected. Each year I design an autograph card (below) that she will give out at special  appearances.

Here is a link to our website for Miss Wisconsin with Reanna and former Miss Wisconsin’s that we have photographed,
http://www.claytonportraits.com/misswisconsin.html

autograph card for Raeanna Johnson Miss Wisconsin 2011

Autograph Card

Raeanna, Miss Wisconsin 2011

Miss Wisconsin 2011

Miss Wisconsin 2011 Raeanna Johnson

Ballet

Ballet photo Miss Wisconsin 2011 Raeanna Johnson

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Congratulations Laura Kaeppeler – Miss America

Posted on January 15, 2012 by Dennis Clayton

Last July I had the pleasure to photograph Laura after she was crowned Miss Wisconsin. The portraits were for promtional material here in Wisconsin as well as her official entry into the Miss America Pageant. Last night, 1-14-2012, Laura was crowned Miss America 2012. She was a pleasure to work with and I am sure she will do well in her new role as Miss America.

Here is a link to more images of Laura
http://claytonportraits.com/wordpress/?p=341

Miss America 2012, Laura Kaeppeler

 

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Fall Colors Composite

Posted on October 17, 2011 by Dennis Clayton

Having the ability to create nice location portraits, without being there is wonderful. On the day I photographed this girl it was raining on and off plus it was windy. I photographed here on a plain background in the studio then masked her out in Photoshop. I selected this High Dynamic Range (HDR) scene to use as a background because of the bold fall colors. The outdoor HDR photograph was taken on a day without clouds so they were added from my collection of stock images.

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UrbEx Skateboard Composite

Posted on October 10, 2011 by Dennis Clayton

When I was photographing Will, I knew that a special portrait was needed to relay his interest in skateboarding. I thought about all the great stock photos I have and figured something on the grunge side would work. This old factory background was photographed as a series of High Dynamic Range (HDR) image I did last year, just for this purpose. The background is a combination of 9 separate exposures, bracketed 1 f-stop apart, to create an image with full tonal range. We used several computer techniques to place Will in a place he has never been to.

These are the two images used to create Will’s skateboard photo.

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Just for Fun

Posted on October 3, 2011 by Dennis Clayton

For this portrait I was just playing around coming up with something to high light Qwantese’s beautiful eyes. By duplicating the portrait layer and fading it as the background it helped to create depth and force viewers look at her eyes.

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Katie on Bike Path

Posted on September 2, 2011 by Dennis Clayton

This is a portrait of Katie taken in our studio on a black background. We edge lit her in a way so we could cut her out of the black background and place into one of our stock backgrounds. This is a great technique that we can use in the winter to put someone into a summer environment.

This is a stock image from our library.

The original photo of Katie on a black background.

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Senior Portraits in the Park

Posted on August 31, 2011 by Dennis Clayton

This is Beth and here are a few of her senior portraits we took last week at Olbrich Botanical Gardens in Madison WI. Beth is a wonderful girl and we created many stunning portraits that show her great personality.

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Ryan – High Dynamic Range Soccer Portrait

Posted on August 26, 2011 by Dennis Clayton

This is a portrait of my good neighbor, Ryan. Ryan is always practicing his soccer moves in his backyard. I asked him where we could find an interesting soccer field so I could create some High Dynamic Range photos to use as a backgrounds. Ryan and his father took me to a great field where I created some stock images that I can drop studio poses onto.

In this photo I used one of the stock background and dropped Ryan’s studio pose on top of it to build reality into the portrait. I added layers of texture over the background image from http://www.photoshop-textures.com/index.html to help enhance the mood.

On the image below I did the same as the one above but there were no textures added to the background.

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David – LaFollette Senior Portrait

Posted on August 9, 2011 by Dennis Clayton

Every session I do has something different to get me excited about what I do. With David it was his love for car racing, he works on the team for the car shown in the photo. David scheduled a location session along with his in studio session so I could drive 20 minutes to photograph the car. I did do several different photos of David and the car as well as two views of the car without him. The day before when we were taking his in studio poses, I preplanned and took a few poses on a black background to combined with the car. This is the best way to get your subject looking there best on a hot day.

It was a good thing that we photographed the car when we did, a few days later the car was banged up (lost it’s side) in a race.

In studio pose used

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Janaina – West High School Senior Portrait

Posted on August 4, 2011 by Dennis Clayton

This is Janaina and a few poses from her recent Senior Choice portrait session. We spent two great hours working together to create a nice selection of poses for Janaina and her family to select from. Here is a link where you can find information about how you can be photographed by Clayton Portraits; http://www.claytonportraits.com/seniors.html


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