Saturday, January 8, 2011

Baby, It's Cold outside

Does cold and foggy make for a good walk? Not really but it makes kinda nifty pictures and it makes you appreciate the warm when you come back in to edit.

I really liked this straight out of the camera, but it was fun to play with it too.

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ISO 800, 56 mm, f/5, 1/50

I cropped it then used CoffeeShop’s free actions for both versions.

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This is the Vintage News Action but I took out the texture and the soft glow.

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This is the Vintage Butterscotch Action with the layers adjusted slightly. Preferences?



MCP Project 52

The talented Jodi Friedman over at MCP Actions has started a new 52 Project and has invited everyone to join her. I have been wanting to try a 365 Project and I’m going to give it the old college try, but knowing me if I missed more than a day I would give it up as hopeless.... soooooo.... I am officially committing to Jodi’s MCP Project 52: Photo a Week. I’m even going to stick to the given theme. (And we’ll see how close I can get to 365 photos this year.)

Since the point of this project, for me, is to improve both my photography and learn at least a tiny bit of editing, (Specifically, try not to weep and gnash my teeth in frustration if every photo isn’t perfect straight out of the camera.) I will be posting both the SOC version and the edited version for each photo.

So with out further adieu here is week 1.

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ISO 100, 218 mm, f/5, 1/4, Using my gorillapod and shutter release.

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I cropped it to get rid of the blown out needle threader and used PW Woman’s PS Actions Sharpen and Define/Seventies Action.