Dodge, Burn and Filters

I used the conte crayon filter to make this hunting shack seem a little older than it is.



I used the paint brush with a very mild opacity to darken the water around the loons and then switched forground colors to white and lightened the loons themselves very slightly. The original picture seemed washed out by the glare of the water. The darkened one helps a little, I think the loons are still hard to see.

My daughter jumping off of a dock a few years ago. I again used the brush tool to darken the SUV and the trees in the background. I also darkened the dock and her skin and hair a little. I switched to white and lightened the shadows on her skin.

Photo adjustments...

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After... I used Gimp to first cut out the statue and the mountains. I then lightened that layer and left the original sky layer the way it was. I like the sky the way it was but the mountain was too dark for me. I ended up making the sky lighter too just to make it all match.




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After... This is a picture of me on my bike. I used hue-saturation to change only the color of the bike. I was impressed how easy this really was once I figured out what everything did. I of course like the original better.

Attack of the six foot chickens... I took the chick picture this spring in my kitchen and the picture of the store front around the same time in North Conway, NH. I'm sure you can tell I just copied the same chicken multiple times. What I thought was really cool was using layers I could pick which chick was in the fore ground.

This is a picture of my daughter. She hates this picture because it makes her look funky. I copied each of her eyes first and thought it was cool looking, then when i copied her mouth it just made it hard to look at but still cool.

Week 6 Landscape

I took this picture in Pennsylvania last summer. I orientated the shot like this because there was more clutter, (tractors, hay bales, and buildings) than I wanted in the picture. I liked the way the freshly mowed grass created lines and portrait mode seemed to make the picture work better.

This picture is also from last summer. It is Niagara Falls. I was on a walking path and the trees opened up and this was the view. More of a water scape but I liked the picture, I think it looks like a sink hole in a lake.

This is Wheeler Mountain, I took this picture this summer. The mountain in the distance is Mt. Pisgah.
This is Bald Hill Pond in Newark, Vt. I took the picture from my kayak one evening. I like the way Bald Hill reflects on the water.