Week Eight

Editing photos by adjusting levels, curves, contrast is something I've always done automatically. This was a before and after photo that I had done on previous weeks. Any photo I have posted I had edited in this way. 

These are photos I've already posted and done some editing with. With this one I remember playing with the saturation as well to make the trees and sky warmer and brighter.

I'm going to take some more pictures so I can do some more new editing.

I found these two above in an old folder so I thought I'd post. It's such a difference and all I did was alter the lighting, shadows, contrast and color. 

With these two above, I just messed around with the sunset. I liked the bottom original one so I had never opened it up in Photoshop. I altered the colors, altered the lighting, added some more contrast and voila. It s a completely different sunset now.

I found this photo buried that I never messed around with so... I added a lot more light to the photo for one. I added a lot more color and again saturation. I added color the first time and then at the end I added even more and it sort of made it look more like the sun was shining right on the center of the bench, which I really liked.

Week Seven

The two photos above I combined by using the Lasso Tool, Clone Tool and then used the Blur tool to blur the edges a bit. 

With the two photos above I used the Rectangular Marquee tool, Crop, and Blur tool. 

I am using Adobe Photoshop Elements 11. 

Week Six

Landscapes. I went on a little road trip on route five taking random roads, and this is what I came up with. When I think of landscapes I think of mountains and sunsets. I tried to sway a little bit from that. My favorite photo is the first one with the cat on the railroad. I was driving over the railroad and I looked one way and I said "oou. I gutta stop" and then I looked the other way and there was a cat just sitting there looking at a tree. I thought it made the photograph so much better. It just sat there for a good five minutes. It moved once I tried to get closer. With the last one, another of my favorites I took photos from all different angles, and this angle ended up being my favorite. With the fourth photo, and many others I had difficulty with the power lines. Very frustrating. One thing I noticed as well is it must of just been the time of day, but the light was almost overwhelming. It seemed to bright and intense in some of my photos. I adjusted as much as I could. Like I've said in the past I definitely prefer taking photos when its a little darker. I think its cause I really like contrast and just the look of warmth. 

Week Five