Photography

I am writing a book. It takes some people into their old age to actually sit down and write a book, I am doing it in my twenties. Ok, so it is no auto-biography or anything like that, but I am putting my favorite pictures into print form. Here is a preview of some of the pages that will be in my book. The cover… brettjenkins_photobook-front-cover-preview   The pages inside… Brett Jenkins...

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I plan on displaying this picture in a gallery so I made some edits to improve upon the original. The first picture was a little dark so I made some quick and easy edits in Adobe Photoshop. This photo was taken in Rexburg, Idaho in an apartment complex parking lot. I’m glad they parked by the tree so that it had a nice background. I had taken a shot from a higher angle, standing up, but this did not look as good. It made the bus...

I love Adobe Can I just tell you how much I love Adobe? Their products are wonderful. I have used GIMP and Inkscape to forgo the cost of buying Photoshop and Illustrator, but they are not even comparable. Adobe just makes great products that do so much. I love them dearly. This was made in photo shop using a cool trick where you make a layer with the boxes and a layer with the photo. By working some magic the photo shows through the...

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...