Photo Challenge: Day 23 – Low Light

I am now committed to cooking. I spent a load of dough today on this pot (and not the kind of dough you knead). I needed a larger sturdy dish like this for cooking chicken dishes, beef dishes and what ever else comes into mind. Don’t you love the rooster!
This photo was shot in shutter priority without a flash with ISO setting of 200. I lightened it up a bit on the computer but it still is a little dark. I like the warm look. There aren’t too many blown out bits that appear.

Photo Challenge: Day 22 – Color Spotting

Here is my first try at color spotting. Making the eyes pop was pretty easy. There was one other big thing that I attempted to fix in the picture that I didn’t do the best job on. Can you tell what part that is?

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Photo Challenge: Day 21 -Tilt Shift Photography

Tilt Shift photography is where a city scene picture is edited to look like a miniature city. Different things are done within photoshop to give an existing photo that fake look. I found a link at some point a few months ago that gave a tutorial on it and I decided to attempt it for myself. While I cannot find the original link I used, I have included the following which does the same.
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Photo Challenge: Day 20 – Age Progression

My photo challenge has turned into whenever I have a chance to post challenge. At least I am occasionally learning some new skills.
Last week was my co-workers 40th birthday. We decided as a team to torture him by wrapping everything in his desk in black, putting some Grecian hair formula on his desk, and a couple other miscellaneous things. We decided it would be neat to take a photo of him and have it age progressed to make him look old. There are software programs out there to do that but I decided this would be a good time to brush up on my Photoshop skills. I obtained a photo off our network drive at work and did my own touching up. Below is the result.
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I used this link and pictures of an older Pierce Bronsan for inspiration.

Photo Challenge: Day 19 – Colors that pop

I know it has been awhile. This day I am attempting to make a picture where colors “pop”. I sort of cheated and picked a pic with a white background. I made it heavily contrasted.

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