June 26, 2006

  • Learning from my mistakes

    sometime my best shots are from my mistakes.  since i'm fairly new to DSLR or photography in general ( i didn't even own any type of camera about 10 months ago) i make tons of mistakes which gave me plenty of examples of what NOT to do.  in order to salvage some of my mistake, b/c i was tired of throwing away so many photos, i had to learn how to use Photoshop.  two recent examples are these photos that i would normally trashed:

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    with a little help of PS, they are among my favorites.  i think i'm just at the tip of of this photoshop iceberg but can't wait to see what all it has instore.

Comments (9)

  • I like the second one best, it's truly art.
    You're progressing well for so little time
    with a camera!

    I've only been shooting since February myself,
    absolutely adore my new passion though

  • photoshop truly does perform miracles doesn't it? eheh great job jason and thanks for coming by!

  • photoshop is a tool just like a great lens, keep using it to your advantage!

  • nice job w/ photoshop

  • You really did a great job with that first one

  • How did you do the second one?

  • since my photo was overexposed, i tone it down my adjusting the Hue to a blue color. added a layer mask and put the skin tone back in. the trick here is to not add the skin tone so evenly, i like to make it uneven and "blotchy" to simulate a painting. then i use the "painting with light" (one of my favorite technique now) from Scott Robert Lim's phototools123.com to seperate the subject from the background.

  • Wow, good job recovering those photos!  I'm a photoshop junkie myself. 

  • Isn't photoshop great?  I'm always finding new stuff to do with it too.  Keep up the good work and just keep shooting, some of my best shots have been mistakes.

    pax :)

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