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Samm Blake is an Australian photographer currently living and working out of Brooklyn, New York. Combining a fine art photography & journalism background with a skilled and sensitive eye for portraiture, her images garnered acclaim for their honesty, vulnerability, and unfeigned connection to its subjects. She photographs celebrations across the world, from Iceland to Indonesia, the UK to the UAE and beyond, always bringing a unique editorial and artistic sensibility to the wedding world.
My presets are based on the images I see floating around in my head, pulled from memories and emotions from traveling.
My black and white preset is based from my days in the darkroom and a heavy dose of inspiration from photojournalists of the 1980's. My black and whites have become one of my most trademark looks. For my color editing, I always like to create a strong consistency of color and tone across the entire wedding day when editing, so my main preset (Jupiter) has been designed to work across the entire day, from daylight to direct flash. The three other color presets have been designed for when I really want to play on the color and tone, to help evoke a particular mood or feeling or when I really want to show the atmosphere of a space. They play on my love for underexposure and are a mix of graininess, low contrast, cool and brown tones, made after spending a week getting lost in Tokyo.
• Adobe® Lightroom® 4 or later
• Adobe® Camera Raw CS6 or later
My everyday go to for editing color work - I love the colors it achieves across an entire day of shooting, from inside to outside and from dark ambient candle light to flash. It plays with the highlights and shadows to give the images a lovely buttery and slightly desaturated feel while still maintaining beautiful skin tones.
This preset is designed entirely for candle / ambient night shots and is designed to take yellow skin tone to a more brownish muted tone.
My black and white preset. It comes with two additional variations to take into account different lighting conditions. I always want to keep detail in my blacks and in the whites, always keeping an eye if I am blowing out detail in a white dress, so the two variations really take this into account.
This preset was made for images that favor a cyan palette and works best on images taken at twilight or images that are heavy with blueish tones, like ocean or sky. It makes the blue's a lovely muted color. It also works well on ambient night shots as the cyan plays on the yellow tones that are normally super heavy and saturated.
Designed for my love of underexposed images. It plays heavily on the highlights, grain and low contrast. I find this preset works best on images that are low key to create lovely soft watercolor like muted images.