Filters

Dodge and Burn

 Before

After

Color and light adjustments

 The first photo i took the one of my daughter's head above the pile of hay, selected an area around her head and heightened the brightness and contrast to pull out a more clearer image of her and ended up double framing her in the process.

This was originally a black an white image i attempted to use for color scheme photo's. Used my quick select tool and clicked on what was originally white, then selected the inverse. I opened my channel mixer and played with the red, green, blue, and contrast levels to get a photo that would have been usable for the color scheme assignment.

Altering

This first one is pretty simple in planning but was a bit touchy in execution. I cropped down and quick selected the light bulb picture and add it to a picture of one of my dogs on our carpet.

This next one i took a picture of our lab, cropped it down, then used the liquify tool on her eyes, eyebrow, nose, and ears.

Landscape

I was getting my daughter out of the car when we got home from her swimming lessons when i looked up and the image punched me in the face and all i thought while looking at it was 'yes.'

My wife didn't think this would be a good shot because of the road; but the link asked us what is "natural"? With man's indutrialization this is natural. This is a natural landscape at least, it wasn't dark out when i took this shot i was playing with the apature and shutter speeds at the time.

The top two were in succession. My wife pulled the car over on our way home from shopping and said there's a shot for ya (refering to the top picture). After taking a couple of the shots of the top one i turned and decided on the cliff side.

The subject of the pictures (landscapes) in theory in easy, just take a picture of non moving scenery. The problem with a landscape picture is the photographer (What angle? Is this good lighting?, Is this really a good picture? ect.) For landscapes, you are your own worst enemy.