Perez Studios

This is a little sample of some weddings, birthdays that we have done in the past as far as a videographer.  I am planning on uploading a video slideshow of our photography work.  The quality on the video is a little grainy because we compressed the video so it would upload quicker.

Seniors, don’t forget to get your Senior Portraits taken.  If you are interested please give me a call at (559) 933-7355 or contact me via email.  We took this photo of these two girls over by the rodeo grounds.  The colors were perfect in the background.  

Senior Portraits are available anytime at Perez Studios.  We can come to you or you can come to us.  Anyplace you want to take your portraits is fine by us. 

Over the years I have hated the fact that I didnt have the patience to go and touchup people’s faces in Adobe Photoshop.  I gave it up actually and fixed just the major issues with a charge of course.  That was until I came across Portrait Professional which is a very powerful program that allows you to draw the outline or major features of a face and it does all the touching up for you.  If you look at the photo above and look to the left you see a girl with a case of bad acne.  On the right you see the work that Portrait Professional does.  If you are into portraits and need to do a lot of touching up I highly recommend it. 

You can purchase Portrait Professional by going to http://www.portraitprofessional.com/ and paying $69.95 right now.  If you are interested in a free trial they offer that as well.

This is an old photo of myself that was taken on my first field operation while in the Marine Corps.  My job was a Field Radio Operator and I was attached to 1st Tank Battalion, H&S Company, Communications Platoon.  I was in Marine Corps Air Ground Combat Center in Twentynine Palms, California.  My first mission was to create a Re-Transmit Site on the top of an observation point.  It was an easy task and we managed to survive the whole mission without getting killed so that was good.

Anyone have any photos to share of themselves when they were in the military please do.  I would love to see them.

Hello All!

It has been a while since my last update but I have been very busy with a lot on my plate.  I kind of wish my mom had made two of me so that I can get twice the amount of work done. 

Anyways, I have been busy with the Police Activities League Photos and the FAST 2009 Swim Team Pictures.  I just finished ordering the photos yesterday after doing all of the editing.  I am glad it is done.  I still have to prepare the envelopes and packages for the photos but that is easier than the photo editing. 

I have one major project coming up and it is not until next month.  A friend of mine has a brother that will be celebrating their 25th birthday.  I will be videotaping the event.  There is supposed to be food, mariachis and a DJ.  We will see how the event turns out.

I have also been working on a website for a good friend of mine.  They wanted something to be able to post their work on to.  I have a skeleton site up and running after they purchased the domain and hosting plan.  The site is http://maryallenscountrycolors.com.  I invite you all to check it out and let me know what you think. 

I have also been working on some evaluating projects.  I mentioned before about how much I love Adobe Lightroom and I must say it is great but I was also curious as to see if there was a program out there that a photographer can use to take the photograph from the camera and actually keep track of what type of package the person in the photograph is ordering.  Something like a portrait program that a school photographer would use.  I am trying to find an easier way to keep track of the kid in the photograph and what they ordered and when it comes time to order just run a report that tells me what and how many to order.  If anyone has something similar to what I am looking for I would surely appreciate the name and where I can get my hands on it. 

Thanks and stay tuned for future updates.

Hello Everyone!

I am glad to finally get a chance to post. I have been crazy busy and I am actually busy right now but I wanted to take a minute to let you know about some things I have been doing.

One is Google Voice! This is by far one of the coolest inventions since the iPhone. It allows you to connect with everyone (in the United States for free) using your existing phones. It actually lets you send sms text messages without even having a phone. You can also get calls from anyone from anywhere. I actually placed a call me button which allows viewers on your site to call you by clicking the button. It asks for the user’s name and their number that they would like to connect the call to. Google calls them using that number then calls you to connect the call.

For more information check out Google and type in Google Voice.

I have also been busy working on updating names and information from the soccer gig that I just finished this weekend. I just started today and I have a lot of names to do. We will see if I can make the deadline.

I have been busy with my job over the past couple of months that I really haven’t had time to create something for my readers.  I apologize for that.  I do wish that I had readers that would be willing to share some of their stories to the blog site but I have been waiting for someone that is trust worthy enough to give them access to post on the site. 

Over the past couple of months I have worked on a wedding back in March I believe that was very nice.  I also worked on some documents for my job which was using Adobe Photoshop.  I just picked up the FAST 2009 Swim Team Pictures deal which really turned out great.  I am waiting to get some photo release forms so I can share some of them with you all.  I also was able to pickup my annual Police Activities League Soccer Team photos deal which is always great. 

My wife came up with a great idea for doing the photos and I cant wait to get some more on this site.  She also looked into finding some promotional materials that helps make our photo taking process a lot easier.  We are still working to perfect it and soon we will be there. 

I will work on getting some photos here soon but for now just enjoy the one above.

I have a couple of events that are scheduled for this week already.  Things have been starting to pick up.  I have the Quarterly DeVry Graduation Photos coming on Thursday in Fresno and I have a wedding scheduled for Saturday.  I am a little nervous about both events because I don’t have Pictage to use for the DeVry photos like I did before and I know it made things so much easier.  I plan on using a separate blog site for them so that I can keep track of which student wants what.  For the wedding, I am nervous because it is going to be an evening wedding and I haven’t done something like that and its going to be outside.  They promise to have a lot of light and so we will see how the thing goes.  I will upload some photos of both once they are complete.  The photo above is from the graduating class last year.