Slideshow Final Project

 

1- My first ultrasound ever, at 6 weeks. I used the Plaster filter on it, and I loved that tiny blob of Addison became her own little continent.
2- A later ultrasound, and I used the Plastic Wrap filter. It felt like it managed to bring alive all these little veins in a growing baby.
3- Cropped, desaturated, and framed belly picture with my husbands and my hands on her!
4- Desaturated, and text layer with a cute poem about motherhood put over it.
5- Cropped, and lots of clone stamp used to just try to make the picture a bit cleaner; removed some of the background, and I also used the heal tool on my face just a little bit. Addison was less than 10 minutes old!
6- Daddy meeting Addison for the first real time…. Cropped, desaturated, and the red enhanced.
7- Addison home for about 30 minutes for the first time, my dog meeting her for the first time, giving her kisses. This picture has a filter on it, called Accented Edges. It felt like it took a special moment for me, and immortalized it.
8- First time swimming at 2 months. I used the dodge tool here to fix the white in the top corner, the clone tool to clean up her little leg, and cropped the photo as well.
9- Addison smiling some of her first real smiles. I used the Glowing Edges filter on this, and it seemed to really bring her alive.
10- Cropped, made black and white, and then the eraser tool used to bring the color of her pj’s out.
11- First Christmas! Cropped, and a lot of the dodge and burn tools to bring out some of the colors.
12- Her shirt cleaned up, and lots of blurring and airbrushing to make this picture sort of silly.
13- Dodge and burn tools used, and the clone stamp used to make the whole curtain red, instead of seeing the inside of the curtain
14- Addisons first birthday! Layers, to give her a birthday background. Shes cut out of the original, and a light eraser used on the edges to feather, and a text layer as well. The layer with Addison in it was also made a bit opaque.
15- Addison running away from her pool this summer. Cropped. Clone stamp used to clean up the grass, and some contrast adjustments.

clone tool

I may be over stepping my boundaries here, so if I am, Im sorry... and I cando something else. Ive just been playing with this tool for a while, so I wanted to push myself a bit, and had this image in my head..... so here it is! Clone stamp tool was used quite a bit, in making my hair match the hand, and my eyes looked different (nice, huh?) So I cloned one and put it over the other....

Filter Work

Meet BTR, age 5, and SFF, 17mo. Already kissing :)

I took the picture and cropped it a bit, then chose Dark Strokes as a filter. I adjusted the balance and the black/white intensity a bit as well.

Dodge and Burn Work!

I took this picture from this week of my daughter, and thought it would be a good one to use for this assignment. I removed the (ahem) cracker from her cheek, cropped a bit of the right hand side of the picture out; then set to work. I used the burn tool initially with a big brush to go over everything but Addison and the wood of the door. Then I made it smaller and went around the edges with the burn tool to make it cohesive. Then I used the dodge tool to go over the wood, and Addisons skin. I feel like it just very easily makes her the center of the world, and everything else- even someones feet- disappear.






The edit:

Second Edit

This is what I started with:


I then adjusted the vibrance, the hue, and the saturation to make the sky even a bit more dramatic. Then I used the clone stamp to stamp bushes over the buildings on the left to take them out.

First Edit...

This was from today, at the beach.... this is the original photo:

And this is what I ended up with:
I desaturated it, obviously. I also tried to make the contrast in the clouds a little more clear; and then I erased the desaturated parts of our clothes that I wanted to pop through. Of course, this is the popular trend known as 'colorsplash'.

Photo Edit

I had so much fun- I sent hubby and I on vacation to Costa Rica! Hey, why not, right? :D


I started with hubs and I REALLY on vacation, just a weekend in NH recently...



Yelled across the room "hey babe, if you could go on vacation anywhere RIGHT NOW, where would you go?"

"Costa Rica".

*Shrugs* "Ok, lets go to Costa Rica!"




And voila.... we're there :D

Landscapes

Post your favorite landscape photos to your blog as well as a short description of what you learned about landscape, or what is was like "getting the perfect photo.














What I learned the most about getting the "perfect" shot was that I desperately need more lenses :D I had a hard time because I couldnt open up the edges of my picture as much as I wanted. These are all unedited; I recently got some filters this weekend, and now I can really see what the difference could have been if I had had filters on the lens before I took these.