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Going insane by way of bad guacamole...

she starts out as a ball of light somewhere in the void. when she is born she is so young and innocent, what a beautiful little girl. then one day she gets her hands on a plate of bad guacamole... it starts with a funny gleam in her eyes, then a strange look.. before long she is completly insane...

so, here are a few examples of portraits that i like. i feel that having little kids gives me endless material to work with.

i love the picture of our boy, and i have been really liking the glowing edges filter so i went with this and cloned the whole thing.

here is the original image

on the normal looking image i had to burn a good portion of the lower left side, i also dodged a few spots in the middle and the right. on the other images i used the solarizing filter and the colored pencil pallette.

here are two picture that i altered using photoshop. i have to admit that photoshop is still pretty much a forign language to me. in the picture of the two people in the cave, i increased the saturation of the water to bring out the green-blue color a bit. i also brightened up the man on the right and increased the contrast somewhat. on the landscape i felt that the upper lefthand portion of the picture was underexposed so i darkened that up a bit using the lasso tool, and adjusting the brightness and contrast. i also increased the saturation of the whole picture to bring out the actual colors a litte more. lastly i used the paintbrush tool to play with the shadows a bit.

i love the oppritunities that we have for landscape photography here in vermont. i like to try and have a diverse landscape in my pictures, mountain, water, trees, ect... the third picture is an example of landscape in a totally diffferent climate. The rainbow pic. i like really just for the rainbow, the rest of the pic is nothing special.

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framing....

in the picture with two people, they are positioned on the third lines. in the other the subject is positioned in the middle. i always like to position things on the third lines when possible because i think that it adds more depth to the shot.

There is really not as much varietion as i would have liked, mostly just a variation in weather which i thought was going to have more of a difference in the lighting, but i guess not... oh well.

These are my examples... the leaves are my monochromatic photo and the sunset is my example of an analogous color scheme

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so, i am somewhat computer illiterate, i had to start a new blog just to get this post up. this is the buddha that sits on my front step. i like the bottom two pictures better because i feel that the angles of the shots are more interesting to me.