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.

Photo Final

This is my original picture that I didn't edit at all.

For this picture, I burned the center and the squares of the bowl and I dodged the edge. I also changed the brightness/contrast and the levels in Photoshop. In Lightroom, I increased the clarity and contrast. Last, I cropped the image closer to the edges of the bowl.

My picture before I edited it.

To edit this one, I went into Photoshop and used levels and brightness/contrast. I also burned some areas on the bowl and parts of the shadow and dodged certain areas on the bowl. In Lightroom, I increased contrast and made the whites whiter. I cropped the picture so the bowl would fill the frame more.

Before picture.

First I went to Photoshop to edit this photograph. I changed curves, levels, exposure, and brightness/contrast. I also burned and dodged some of the edges of the tiles. Then I went to Lightroom and increased the contrast, decreased the shadows, and made the white parts whiter. Finally, I cropped the picture to the top and bottom edges of the tiles.

Before I edited.

In this picture, I changed the levels, burned the edges of the shadows, and dodged parts if the snowman and the bottom left corner so you could easily see its shadow. In Lightroom I added contrast, highlights, and shadows. I also cropped it so the snowman didn't seem as far away and in the middle.

Holiday Lights