Frozen Motion

For this picture I used a shutter speed of 1/500 sec, apertures at 8.0, and an ISO of 400. In Lightroom I increased the temperature, contrast, black clipping and the orange color in the ball. I decreased the white clipping and shadows. I did not to anything in Photoshop for this one.

In this picture I used a shutter speed of 1/500 sec, apertures set to 8.0, and an ISO of 400. In Lightroom I increased the temperature, contrast, and the orange in the ball. I decreased the tint, highlights, and black clipping. I then moved it to Photoshop and clone stamped out my shadow and cropped it.

I used a shutter speed of 1/500 sec, apertures at 8.0, and an ISO of 1600 for this photograph. In Lightroom I increased the vibrance, highlights, clarity, contrast, highlight tones, and saturation. I decreased the exposure and white clipping. I also cropped it in Lightroom. I moved it to Photoshop and clone stamped out a tree trunk and stones leaning against the fence.

I set the shutter speed at 1/500 sec, the apertures at 8.0, and ISO at 400. In Lightroom, I Increased the contrast and clarity. I also decreased the tint sharpening and shadow tones. I also made the oranges and reds stand out more. I did not do any editing in Photoshop for this picture.

Practice Motion Pictures

I set a low shutter speed on this photo at 1/30. The apertures were set at 6.6. The ball was thrown into the air and it came out very blurry in the photo.

This one had a medium shutter speed at 1/80. The apertures for this were set at 8.3. The results came out a little blurry, but more focused than the first one.

This had a high shutter speed with the apertures at 5.9. The ball is very sharp, clear, and easy to see.

Texture Layer

To create this picture, I chose one of my flower pictures and a picture of bark. In Lightroom, I increased the temperature and tint, while decreasing the shadows and black clipping in the texture photo to make it lighter and browner. I then moved both pictures to Photoshop and made their sizes and resolution match. I copied my texture photo on top of the flower photo. After looking through all the blending modes, I chose darken and changed the opacity to 25%. I added a layer mask and brushed out some texture in and around the water drops.

Text Tutorial

To begin creating this, I opened a layer in Photoshop. I added a gradient to the background that is light blue at the top and fades into white at the bottom. Then I used the text tool to write the word, "Whoosh." The font size is 120 pt and the color is kind of a raspberry, pinkish-red. After that I clicked on the button at the top called text warp. I chose twist because I thought it looked best for the sound effect. The bend is at 73% and the horizontal distortion is at 24%. Then I moved the word to the middle of the screen. I went to bevel and emboss to increase the depth in the up direction to 100%. I also changed the contour range to 69%. Next I went to stroke and outlined the word in a darker color. In drop shadow, I increased distance to 164 px, spread to 23%, and size to 10 px. I also went to inner shadow and increased distance to 5 px and size to 13px. Last I went to inner glow, and set the opacity to 75% and increased size to 5 px.

Chrysanthemum

Before picture

After picture.

This photo was not edited in Lightroom. In Photoshop, I cropped it to a square. Then i used color balance to increase the reds and blues in shadows. In midtones, I increased the magenta and cyan. I did not change the highlights.

Flower Grid

For these photos, I shot them using macro to zoom in on the water drops. I adjusted the light meter to get the correct lighting. I uploaded them to Lightroom and used clarity, contrast, and black and white clipping on all of them. In Photoshop I had to clone stamp out a few water drops and unnecessary distractions. I set them at the right size and resolution and placed them into a grid.