Beautiful Eyes

My best friend’s granddaughter.  She has the most beautiful eyes.   I edited this a fair amount.  A little Gaussian blur and some dodging and burning of small areas.  Processed in Photoshop Elements 6. This was taken with a little Olympus point and shoot. Camera settings: Olympus Stylus, F/4.8, 1/160 sec., ISO 200, focal length 23.8 [...]

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Cody

Cody, my daughter’s new kitten.  I touched up some flash reflection in his eyes and did a Gaussian blur vignette using the lasso tool with a 200 pixel feather.  Processed in Photoshop Elements 6, I used a high pass filter and levels adjustment.  Cody came from a local animal shelter and is such a doll. [...]

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Benny

Benny belong to my friends in Minnesota.  I took this during my time there.  Benny is a loyal and true friend.  This photo was processed in Photoshop Elements by adjusting levels, changing to b/w (portrait), running through Sketch/Dk. Strokes with a Soft Light blending mode and finally treating with Topaz Simplify crisp edge. Camera settings: [...]

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B/W Sketch

Processed in Photoshop Elements with photocopy sketch effect.  I adjusted the width and pressure of the pen and burned and dodged to bring out accents.  Hope you like it.  We were celebrating this girl’s graduation from kindergarten. Camera settings: Canon T1i, F/11, 1/15 sec., ISO 800, focal length 53 mm.  No flash. Here is an [...]

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Portrait

My daughter Sara again.  This time we were outside about 7:00 pm in full shade.  Photo was processed with some cloning, burning and dodging, and a little Gaussian blur.  Levels were adjusted as a final step. Camera settings: Canon T1i, F/5.6, 1/100 sec., ISO 400, focal length 194 mm.  No flash.

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Portrait

Had fun taking photos of the dogs today.    Pulled the curtains back off of the patio doors and used window light.  Getting the dogs to cooperate was another story!!  Eventually got this of Dawson, our Australian Shepherd.  I processed in Photoshop Elements by using the magnetic lasso to circle his face.  I then selected Inverse [...]

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Candid

Let’s try this photo instead of my first try.  I appreciate the comments left.  I am still learning about taking people photos!  This is my best friend’s granddaughter.  Circumstances weren’t best as this was taken in the playground area of a Chick-fil-A!!  Most of the area was in heavy shadow except for this one corner.  [...]

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Portrait

One portrait in two different looks.  Subject is my wonderful daughter, Sara.  Color portrait is processed in Photoshop Elements with one layer of Gaussian blur overlaid over original after it was adjusted for levels.   B/w is just the color photo transformed to b/w.   I used natural window light.   Thanks, Sara!! Camera settings for both photos: [...]

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Dawson

A portrait of our Aussie, Dawson.  I had lamp light just on his face.  I adjusted lighting, levels, and used a simplify filter to soften the look.  I then desaturated the color to give it more of an old movie look.   Finally, there is a elliptical marquee oval with gaussian blur on the outside.   Dawson [...]

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Green Eyes

Took a photo of a doll in a window of our house.  I may revisit the toadstools, but for now it’s this window doll!  I used the lasso tool to select the eyes, chose inverse, then used Gaussian blur to accentuate the big eyes.  I may have used a little too much blur.  I’d probably [...]

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