Posts made in October, 2014

Don’t ruin your originals by editing them without taking a few steps to make everything reversible. That is the idea behind “non-destructive edits.” Here are a few shots that I edited and can go back and keep editing if I needed to because they are completely non-destructive… Adjustment layer Before… After… I added an adjustment layer and darkened the whole picture. I then used the brush tool to go...

While in Provo this last weekend I went on a short hike and found this awesome rusty bridge. The colors of the rust, contrasting the color of the leaves and the cloudy sky made the whole collection really come together. Here are a few of my favorite shots all from different vantage points, with different things in focus, and with different depths of field. Let me know which ones you enjoy the most… The location of these pictures...

Don’t pay for answers that will not change your decision. If you are creating a survey, for example, don’t ask questions that will not affect your decision once you find the answer to the question.

This week we are practicing cutouts in Adobe Photoshop. I took some fun photos in Turkey that  I used for this assignment. For the full cutout I was not supposed to take flash photography in the museum that we were in, but as you can tell, I had the flash on this this picture. Oops. 1. Partial cutout Before I cut out the focus…   After I cut out the focus… I loved the colors in this picture. The bridge gave such good...

For the color study I chose to focus on the color blue. Shallow Focus: This one was a tender mercy, she was just walking past with these beautiful glasses. She is very pretty herself and so I got this great shot of her with some great bokah in the back. I love that you can see me too in the reflection of her glasses. I really like the texture of this image. Just the area two feet from me was in focus, nothing closer, nothing farther....