My husband gave me a bouquet of flowers, which is where these flowers came from … a nice bright spot in the middle of winter. I’m glad he likes to surprise me. I thought I would try taking some pictures of them using a DIY lightbox I made a short time ago. I found the directions for […]
I’ve enjoyed putting some of my pictures into sepia … and keeping part of the picture in colour. To do this you need to work with your layers, and make the top sepia layer into a layer mask – then “paint” with black where you want the colour to come through from the other layer. […]
I took a slightly different approach with these pictures. I thought I’d try putting a vignette around them. Each of the flowers were taken with a neutral, blank background. The bottom one is actually a white rose, and was taken with backlight from a window, then given a pink tint. Still practising, still learning.I’ve learned […]
I’ve recently been using Raw Format when I’m taking photos. They do take up more space in the camera so that you can’t take as many pictures as you can when you have your camera set to Large (jpeg) for photos. It takes longer when you download and when you open the photos. The photos […]