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Showing posts with label canon. Show all posts
Going with my whole love of colors, I have a new color palette mix using Chasing Dreams free Color Palette templates. 

As always hope that this inspires a color mix for you! Or better yet, download the templates and play around and find your own color palette!
Cowgirl Love

Southwestern Palette

Lilac Love




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So very absent

I challenge myself to post here more often. I put out our hard earned $$ for this site and here it sits, like a red headed step child most of the time. Forgotten, left behind, neglected.  I can use the term red headed step child because my first born has red hair, and I am irish, it gives me the right ;). Not dissin red headed step kids promise!

So, back to why I am here, school semester is near to over, we're in the last few weeks and the end of the road is near. At least for a month then it will be back to the grind.

I have been busy busy, hence my neglect of the site. I could put up all the pics that I have taken since summer, but they definitely fall into the description of Photo101 and lack the beauty, spontaneity and simple life that I am used to exhibiting.  I do have a couple to share though, ones that I worked on despite being pressed to finish homework. Sometimes you gotta break the rules right?


Day 3 - Textures

Taking this idea from Epic Edits,  I am playing with textures today.

TEXTURE


If texture is a big part of your subject, make it stand out and make it obvious. Match up the textures between your subject and your background. You might even try texturizing the entire photo for additional impact.

Textures have been a very large part of my photography life since I discovered Photoshop and all of it's abilities. As much as I <3 {OOC} Photo's and the flair and knowledge that it takes to create un-adultered photos. My weakness is still photoshopped images.

I used the same photo for both of the following pictures to show examples of two different types of texture techniques that I use.

[caption id="attachment_51" align="alignright" width="300" caption="Double layer textured image"]Inspirations[/caption]

This image I simplified by layering a gerbera daisy on top of a texture that I found on the web.

I should take a moment to say, if you collect images that are free to use in your photography, it's a good idea to either edit the name of the photo with the original creators name or web address, or edit the EXIF data on the image. I have so very many textures and overlays from artists who give away their creations for free with only a request of recognition. This image however did not get the edit info and as such I have no idea who the original artist was :(.












This second gerbera I went a little out of my normal safety level and used a texture from Graphic Authorities Urban Youth kit. I set the texture to Overlay and then set fill to 54%. I could have taken it a few more levels but I was leary of losing the nice bokeh effect that was still present.










Day 3 proved to be fun, I brought out an old picture from early 2008 not long after I first got my Canon XTi and was learning painfully slow how to use a camera again.

Reminiscing, Inspiring, Learning.

It's what this is all about.