Announcing - Sam Hurd

Hours after being offered a job from a NASA contractor, Sam dropped everything to go all in as a political news and celebrity portrait photographer in DC. Sam was inevitably drawn to wedding photography as a space to promote more inventive ideas. His focus is on photographic techniques which, though deceptively simple, have potential to transform difficult or uninspiring shooting environments into one of a kind opportunities for every photo created.

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Three things I love: warm tones, vivid colors, and Star Trek TNG. This pack includes my most used color and black and white settings along with all of the variations and tools needed to complete a full range of edits. Built on the DVLOP platform these versatile presets achieve rich skin tones and vibrant colors while retaining dynamic range to result in an honest, but enhanced picture of what the scene actually looked like. The toolkit includes a few of my favorite effects to unlock variable black points, retain blue skies, and rein in problematic skin tones.

Hello world. I'm Sam and I love magic, but, unfortunately, I'm no magician. I always wanted to be, but instead, the many cameras I've owned have steered my life in a direction I never imagined. However, if my photographs leave you with a warm smile from a portrait with a mind bending technique or simply a happy moment then, in a way, I feel my childhood dream of becoming a magician has been achieved. I'm motivated by working in less than perfect shooting environments that surprise my couples with results they could have never imagined themselves. - Sam