Go green
Nothing I take comes out the way I want these days so instead I do some mindless random swinging around of the camera in hopes of setting off some sparks in my head.

Been a while.
80 days, 15 hours, 39 minutes to be exact.

This will be short.
Just to follow up on some of this post. (bullet-points at the bottom)
http://www.thanksno.com/ [Just fun (and a heads up to all that's reading, clicking, writing and sending).]

As for the "unsettling heart". I'm much better now thank-you-very-much. Some things are being sorted, have been sorted, will be sorted, will be dealt with, and some are still unsettled but not as invisible. I'll make the next post more meaningful since I've now finally pulled the switch and put gears in motion. Hopefully they're greased and will keep turning.
Who knows, maybe I'll cover the remaining bullets.

Labels: first post, rant, test

(Before-After retouching)

I tried a little layering yesterday. More or less the first time I've used layering on photos this way. I usually don't do such extensive amounts of editing but am finding interest in the amount of colours this can bring out.

It basically involves splitting the photo up in several parts to bring out as much colour as possible. Regular retouching involves overall enhancing the photo whether in colour channels or just by shadow and highlights.
It's true that layer masks (PS) allow much of the same, but layering allows far more freedom.
Take for example the photo above. I split the photo up in three parts as essentially those are the three main colour and light divisions; the sky, the trees, and the water.
This allowed me to bring out colour and clouds in the skies, saturate and create greater contrast in the trees, and bring out a clearer reflection on the water surface without affecting each other element in the photo.

The photo is five months old and found just for testing purposes. It's not a very impressive photo and the edit isn't much to brag about either. Still, despite having done similar things before, it becomes quite interesting when applied to sky-ground photos.

Labels: photo, retouching, test

Upon The Moving Sea
Brighton Pier

View Large On White

Just testing Flickr's auto blog-this function.

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Labels: extension, flickr, lorem ipsum, photo, test