Hello! Welcome to Christy Dux Portraits – formally Christy Shaterian Photography. A lot has changed since the last blog post I posted. I had every intention of writing and sharing more, but sometimes life looks differently than you plan. I went back and forth once I got married on whether or not I would change …
2017 TN State Fair
It’s that time of year, again…already! Crazy how time flies. This was my third year of entering prints into the Tennessee State Fair photography competition. Each of the images that I entered have a special place in my heart and I can’t wait to share more about each one! No way?! Patrick, my fiance, and I …
The Tennessee State Fair
This was the second year that I entered the TN State Fair Creative Arts Competition for Photography, and really the second time I’ve submitted work to be judged on. I had entered a photo contest judge by other photographers one other time (the Shoot and Share contest), but that’s it to date. I was excited to …
52-Week Selfie Challenge – Week 4
Week 4!! This week has been a crazy busy one…I found myself being surprised that it was already Thursday and I hadn’t taken and published my selfie for the week. As I struggled with posting this one since I wasn’t “ready” I realized this is exactly the reason to publish it…This is me. First take, …
Conceptual Composite: Levitation – How I created it
I love seeing levitation images and went out to create my own (I can’t wait to make more). It is definitely a lot harder to do a self portrait image, as I’m running back and forth to the camera making sure I have all of my angles correct and got all of the images I needed to …
Double Exposure
Today I tried a double exposure technique in photoshop. This will take some more practice but I’m looking forward to the outcome of all the ideas I have running in my mind!