Three Oaks Photography

Photographic Education

2011-03-13T20:30:00.001-04:00

I recently made a photographic record of my education as a photographer.

2011

2011-02-02T20:39:00.002-05:00

This seems like a good time to reactivate my blogging activity. 2010 was year that was a difficult one from a personal perspective, thus a new year brings renewal and a commitment to continue this adventure called life!
My motto has always been: "Never grow up and never stop learning!". So it is time to expand my horizons and continue to find new adventures.
I originally stared this blog as a place for displaying my photos for critiquing in an on-line photo course I was taking. It served that need very well. I then continued to post some miscellaneous thoughts after that, but have been dormant since mid 2008. I am now starting my 4th year of retirement and also my new career as a photographer. I have also become very active on Facebook and in the blogging world. The result is that you will see both my photography and thoughts expressed here and also on Facebook.
I can not promise daily or even weekly posts, but will post when when I feel the need.
Photography has become a very exciting endeavor for me. I continue my education by participating in workshops and photo-shoot adventures. The results can be see on my web page at: 3 Oaks Photography.
Feel free to email me or comment about anything that might interest you.

The Blues!!

2008-09-25T13:01:00.000-04:00

Tab Benoit was at Wilbert's in Cleveland last night. I try to get to his concerts whenever possible. He does blues and more, like nobody else. Was by myself last night due to concert being in the middle of the week and Sandy having an early work morning today. Got caught in a traffic jam near downtown Cleveland and wondered what was happening, as Wilbert's only holds a few hundred people, so I knew that all of the cars were not going there. Turns out Celine Dion was performing at the "Q" so I ended up having to pay more for parking than what the cover was at Wilbert's.

Thought I would be late, but I wasn't, in fact I got to chat with Tab at the bar some before the concert and also with his drummer and bass player during the break. Was a fun, happy and drinking crowd , including the band. Lots of Celine Dion jokes and more. I got to meet a couple from Kent that are regulars and New Orleans Jazz Fest and we traded stories and favorite musicians for a while. Really a friendly, relaxed crowd. Music was fantastic as usual. Be sure to put Tab on your must see list.

Enjoy the following clips. He performed both of these songs last night. It felt for a few hours like I was back in N'awlins.

Rock Flipping Day - 2008

2008-09-10T22:39:00.003-04:00

I discovered Rock Flipping Day a couple of weeks ago as I expanded my search for Birding Blogs and other interesting sites. This year the day was Sunday Sept. 7th. I am behind in my blogging so am several days late in posting my results. For more information on the event and for a listing of people who participated check out:

via negativa.

My results are as follows:

Before FlippingAfterClose-up

As you can see I found a slug and some black muti-segmented crawly thing. This was a really cool thing to do, but I am going to need to brush up on my crawly knowledge before next year.

I thought it might be fun for my neighbors who have twins that just started Kindergarten, so I went up to their house and both of them tried it. We didn't have much success as the rocks were near their house and there wasn't much soil underneath them as the area had been filled with ash/limestone. They had fun I think and I confirmed with them that I was a neat, but strange guy next door.

Pardon My Dust

2008-09-04T23:54:00.000-04:00

I am in the process of updating and working on the template for my blog. As a result some of my older posts appear in funny ways and weird formatting. Stay tuned as I hope to have the blog upgraded by next week.

Thanks
Dick

Just for fun!!

2008-07-21T21:41:00.001-04:00

This post is just for fun. No pictures, music or birds. Just a strange device, by some unknown engineer!

Sonny Landreth Live

2008-06-30T22:16:00.003-04:00

Sandy and I along with 3 other couples traveled to the Beechland Ballroom in Cleveland last night to hear Sonny Landreth Live!! It was a fantastic concert and if you ever have a chance to hear Sonny, don't miss out on an unbelievable performance. We heard the song performed below.

Birds 6/30/08

2008-06-30T21:35:00.001-04:00

The bird feeders continue to attract many regulars along with some new ones from time to time. The two pair of finches appear to have set up residence near the thistle feeder and the Rose Breasted Grosbeaks continue to delight us every day. The past two days have seen visits from, Cowbirds, Redbellied and Downy Woodpeckers. The Downy will not stay still enough for me to get a clear picture. Here are today's shots.

Fireflies

2008-06-29T16:16:00.000-04:00

I came home at dusk several nights ago and the fireflies were everywhere in the bean field next to the house. I knew it would be a risky picture, but I tried anyway. Here it is......it is sort of an impressionist result.....so use your imagination.

Birding June 25th - Finches

2008-06-29T16:08:00.000-04:00

Was a fun drive from Wooster. Saw some Night Hawks, Red Headed Woodpecker, Bobolink on the way home. No camera for pictures though, however the Finches have finally found the feeders.

Birding June 18th

2008-06-29T15:55:00.001-04:00

My Birding interest continues to grown and while I have downloaded some software for my Palm to log my sightings my main interest is in seeing new birds and enjoying the beauty of all of nature and having fun. In fact both my blood pressure and my cholesterol are the best they have been in years which I credit to my enjoying my new adventures in life!!

I had some interesting sightings over the past few days. I saw the Orioles chasing a Red Tailed Hawk away from their nest and saw a new bird perched in the trees. Using my binoculars and Sibley I determined it was a Great Crested Flycatcher! I have been taking some pictures both from the deck and from the kitchen through the window of birds at my feeders. Below are the results, no unusual birds and not great pictures, but I am learning. I need to get a blind set up on the deck so I can sit closer without scaring the birds away. Also need to keep the cats off of the deck. More later.

Fawn

2008-06-29T15:23:00.000-04:00

Earlier this spring I was taking the weed piles from Sandy's flower gardens(Note Sandy has done all the weeding) out into the woods to dump in the compost pile. Imagine my surprise when I stopped and saw a fawn hiding in the weeds 2 ft. from my tractor. It was frozen and hiding just like to is supposed to do. In fact, it stayed while I went back to the house and got my camera. The pictures were good except for the leaf in front of its face. Sandy came over and after watching it for awhile, I asked here to walk closer to it, in hope that it would moved slightly so I could get a better picture. When it saw her moving in it decided it was time to leave and away it went. As I mowed later in the evening I saw it hiding in two more places along the edge of the woods.

Shreve Swamp - June 5th

2008-06-29T14:39:00.002-04:00

Two years ago, John asked to go along on a Birding Contest, "Montezuma Muckrace". The result was fun 24 hours in Sept. the last two years and a budding interest in Birding. This spring I had the time to enjoy the birds at our feeder while I would prepare and eat breakfast. There were many birds I couldn't identify, out came my bird book and found out I needed help. John has been birding for several years and so I wou
ld call or email him to ask what this or that bird was. On our joint trip to San Antonio, John and I spent a morning letter boxing and birding and I came home hooked on birding. I ordered several new bird feeders for my deck and started studying my Sibley Guide.

John and Laura came home the 1st week of June for a graduation and Brian's birthday. John and I reserved the 5th for a birding day in Shreve Swamp!! Earlier in the week, he helped me set up the new feeders and we spent time watching from the living room while enjoying a few beers!! We found an Oriole nest near the deck and really enjoyed watching the Oriole pair flying back and forth to their nest.Here is what my deck feeder set up looks like.

Oriole Nest

On Thursday morning we got up early, well 8 am is early for me!! We picked up the "Golfer Special" breakfast sandwiches that Sandy had made for us and headed to the swamp. Was a really fun day and saw lots of birds and discovered some really good viewing sites. We logged 33 species, many of which were firsts for me. We also discovered a place where we saw Red Headed Woodpeckers and also saw other wildlife. Especially impressive were the hundreds of Bull Frogs. We came back in the evening and both of us experienced for the first time the synchronized sound of hundreds of bull frogs. Really cool sound.

We continued to bird through out the rest of the week and I saw my first night hawks. Pictures are of our day in the swamp. Please be forewarned that my macro photo of the red bug(anyone know what it is?) was thought to be a macro shot of a single bug. Imagine my surprise when enlarging the picture I discovered that there were two bugs. enjoying an afternoon together.

We were also able to observe a Bald Eagle soaring overhead.

Catching Up - Fun in April

2008-06-29T13:06:00.000-04:00

I am very late in posting a very fun trip I took in April with my son-in-law, John. John is a fun guy who loves adventures and doing new things. Also, he involves me in his adventures. More posts later on my becoming a birder.

This trip was involved with John's Story Telling hobby. He has been doing some story telling in the Rochester area along with combining it with his love of technology and podcasting. Collecting stories from Rochester story tellers and making podcasts of them has been a passion of his for the past couple of years. The result was that he made a presentation on Podcasting, at a LANES Story Telling Conference in New Hampshire. I was invited along for both fun and as a tech support guy, bringing along my 4 laptops and associated hardware. His presentation was well received and we had a fun trip. I did learn that the Applebee's near out hotel made a excellent Gin Martini-Well done and a large pour. This is in contrast to our local Appebees which makes a very bland small martini.

We also did some letterboxing on the our travels, however one of the high lights was a stop we made at a Sugar Camp on the way. The father of one of John's co-workers has been boiling maple sap for many years and we were passing by a the right time to stop in and observe the process. I remember seeing my Uncle's Sugar Camp when I was about 6 or 7. He used horses to collect the sap from the sugar bush. The camp we stopped at on this trip was on a hill side, so they had rigged up tubing from the trees and had a gravity feed into a collection vat. Was a fun stop and we did leave with some Maple Syrup. Here are John and I learning and watching.

Graduation Collage

2008-06-23T23:12:00.002-04:00

Enjoy the collage of my niece. It was a present from me to her at her graduation party. Julia's version of the picture was matted and framed. I did not take the pictures, but did the photoshopping to come up with this result.

(As always you can click on the picture for a larger image)

Shoot the Hills - Photo Competition

2008-05-04T23:34:00.000-04:00

Recently I had the opportunity to participate in a unique Photography Competition known as "Shoot the Hills" which takes place in Hocking Hills, located in southeast Ohio. The unique part of the contest is that it takes place over a 24 hour period, starting at 1pm on Friday and ending at 1pm on Saturday. You then turn in your film for the Film Division and have till 4pm to process your digital pictures in the Digital Divisions. Only minor Photoshop adjustments are allowed. Your pictures must be taken in a 4 county area around Hocking Hills during the 24 hour contest period. There are 3 divisions, with 6 categories in each division.

The Divisions are:

Digital Point and Shoot
Digital SLR
Film(slides)

The Categories are:

Flora
Wildlife
Human Interest in Nature
Landscape
Abstract
Photographer's Choice(voted on by the contestants)

You are allowed 5 entries in each division, with a max of two per any category, and a sixth entry in the Photographer's Choice. There were over 130 photographers entered with some in more than one division. The result is a very large number of pictures entered in the contest. I entered both the Film and the Digital SLR divisions.

Judging is done by a panel of 5 professional photographers and is done in two stages. A preliminary sort is done with about 20% of the entries in each category making in to the final round where each entry is graded individually by each judge.

It was a fun and educational experience for me. I did not place, but only missed by two points in getting an Honorable Mention in the Film-Landscape entry. I really enjoyed the adventure and am looking forward to next year. Below are my photos, also if you want more information on the contest check out: Shoot the Hills for general information and Gallery for pictures of all the winning entries.

Click on any of the pictures for a large view.

Digital SLR

Abstract

Flora

Human Interest
Photographer's Choice

Film

Abstract
Flora

Human Interest
Landscape

Wildlife

Photographer's Choice

Josh and Sonya's Wedding

2007-12-28T13:04:00.001-05:00

I am back posting to my photo blog after a long absence. It is good to be back and working with photos again. Below you will see a unique picture I made of my nephew's wedding. I recently gave them this picture for a Christmas present and thought I would share it with everyone. It uses many techniques that I have leaned in Photoshop Elements, along with some different and unique poses at the wedding. If you have any questions on how the final composite was generated please contact me.

Initial Pose

Second Pose

Initial Pose for Globe

Initial Rings Pose

Final Result

More Collages-Lesson 2 Addition

2007-03-29T01:26:00.000-04:00

Here is second composition using two techniques learned in this lesson.

More Collages-Lesson 2

2007-03-28T16:46:00.000-04:00

Posted Several Exercises along with one composition.

More Collages-Lesson 1

2007-03-26T00:17:00.000-04:00

Idiom
He's (I'm) an Egghead

Exercise 7

Bubble Collage

RBB Literature

2007-02-27T18:51:00.000-05:00

The following pictures depict the new RBB Literature. As you may know I normally use this Blog to post my homework for my PSE 4 lessons that I am taking from the Eclectic Academy. However, as you can see from the literature below, I have been so busy using what I have learned from Sara to develop our new literature, that I had minimal time for actual homework. Thus I was only able to finish the first three lessons on the last course. I did print out all the lessons and will complete them as time permits.

In addition I have been taking photos for our newsletter that will come out in two weeks along with tweaks on our web site: www.rbbsystems.com

And at home we are in the process of remodeling 3 rooms in our house. I am trying my hand at Faux painting!! My colorwashing using a brush turned out great, now to see if the metallic look is going to work in the new master bath. Whew, I get tired just typing what the last 3 months have been like. Soon, maybe the drywall dust will all be gone!!!

Note: There are some typos and some alignment issues that need to be fine tuned before the literature is printed. The brochure is 8 pages, thus I am showing the front and back as individual pages and the internal pages as a double wide page, which is how it would appear in print.

Note: As always if you click on a picture you will get a larger version with more detail.

Front Cover

Pages 2-3

Pages 4-5

Pages 6-7

Back Cover

Photoshop More Pizzazz! - Lesson 3

2007-02-02T12:00:00.000-05:00

Really had fun with this lesson. Clear brush painting was really different and the Actions from Panos were fantastic. I got carried away and posted way more that 2 Action Samples. All of the actions used were the free ones for Elements from Panos.

Clear Brush Painting

Original for Brush

Abstract Lions

Using Action Variations on Several Pictures

Puzzle Variations using a Picture of Sandy and me that my Uncle made recently in his first course from Sara.

Original for all of the Various Actions

Stamp Action

Spiral Action

Puzzle Action

Unsolved Puzzle

Photo Album

Cracked Wall Painting

Big Picture

Rubik Cube

Photoshop More Pizzazz! - Lesson 2

2007-01-24T17:58:00.000-05:00

Replacing Face in Victorian Picture.
Results shown in both B/W and Sepia

Originals

Results

Tabloid Generation

Original Picture

Results

More Face Replacement

I think Daisy is beginning to look more and more like one of her owners everyday. In fact I would suspect that very soon she will be sitting in the chair and John will be chasing paper balls around on the floor! :-)

Special Effects

Deckled Edges on Picture

Torn Paper Edge

Photoshop More Pizzazz! - Lesson 1

2007-01-11T23:43:00.000-05:00

The 1st Lesson used different techniques and styles to create Candy. Also we were to download some free 3rd party Layer Styles and use them. This resulted in the following.

Buckeyes & Lifsavers on a Backgound combination of Different Layer Styles

Holiday Greetings To Everyone.

2006-12-28T10:50:00.000-05:00

2006 has been an exciting year for the Beery and Ballou families!

Sandy and I hope that the New Year brings Peace and Joy to everyone and may you have "Explosive Adventures" like we experienced during 2006. For those of you who know us, you may be able to figure out our "Fireworks" ! To those those of you who are Web friends, please enjoy the reflection of our year in the collage below.

A special thanks goes out to Sara and the Eclectic Academy, for their PSE 4 courses. Without Sara and her teaching techniques, the following picture would not have been possible.

Photoshop Pizzazz! - Lesson 6

2006-12-18T00:29:00.000-05:00

Lesson 6 - Various Filters

Exercise 2

Stained Glass Filter
Original Stained Glass
Texturized Filter Using Itself
Original Texturized

Liquify Filter

Final Image with Various Filters
OriginalFiltered about 7 Different Ways

Photoshop Pizzazz! - Lesson 5

2006-12-11T22:53:00.000-05:00

Here a couple of examples of various Sketch Filters. It was fun trying various combinations. I am posting both the original and the filtered version of each picture.

Original

Bas Relief and Conte Crayon

Original

Bas Relief and Graphic Pen

Photoshop Pizzazz! - Lesson 4

2006-12-01T00:06:00.000-05:00

This was a fun lesson with lots of variety. I like my results on everything except some of my Borders did not seem very dramatic, not sure what to do to improve them.

My Book

The book was really fun and cool to do. Not sure I will remember all the steps, but I have the lessons printed out for reference. My edge burn is not quite in the correct spot I still think the effect is ok. I is hard to see in the small low res image on the web, but I added some detail to the book side and bottom. I used the fibers texture on the side to give it some detail and some other texture on the darker bottom. Sorry do not remember what it was. I just experimented.

Diffuse Filter Technique

Several Border Examples

Type Filled w/Image

Sphere Examples

Photoshop Pizzazz! - Lesson 3

2006-11-27T23:22:00.000-05:00

The following pictures are the homework posts for Lesson 3. I did not post the Brush Exercises, even though I did them. When I went to post I found that I had lost the brushes and I had not saved any of the samples. So here are the other two assignments.

Photoshop Pizzazz! - Lesson 2

2006-11-19T02:25:00.000-05:00

Exercise 1 - Sprayed Strokes

Exercise 2 - Spatter

My Favorite - Ink Edges

Exercise 3 - Displace Filter

Exercise 4 - Shear

Motion Blur
Exercise

My Photo

Pen and Ink Photo
Exercise

My Photo

Photoshop Pizzazz! - Lesson 1

2006-11-09T13:42:00.000-05:00

Assignment 1

Exercise 1
Original Picture

Poster Edges Once

Poster Edges Twice

Exercise 2
Original for both Exercise 2 & 3

Cutout Filter w/desaturation

Exercise 3

Film Grain: Grain=8, Highlight=12, Intensity=10

Sponge: Brush Size=2, Definition=12, Smoothing=5

Dry Brush: Size=2, Detail=8, Texture=1

Colored Pencil: Width=4,Stroke Pressure=8,Paper Brightness=39

Smudge Stick: Length=7,Hightlight Area=9,Intensity=10

Neon Glow: Size=14, Brightness=19

Exercise 4
Original Picture

Gaussian Blur for Depth of Field

Exercise 5

Original

Line Drawing

Assignment 2
Original Picture

Dry Brush

Dry Brush, Cutout w/Canvas Texture

Dry Brush, Paint Daubs and Film Grain all on one layer then Screened with Orignal

Assignment 3 - Textures

B&W Clouds w/Noise

Granite

Blue and White Clouds

Wood Grain

Assignment 4 - Artificial Smoke

PSE-4 Update

2006-11-01T17:17:00.000-05:00

Well, it has been several weeks since I posted any homework on my courses and the reason is that I have not had chance to complete the last two lessons in the Collage course and the last lesson in Making Photos Pop. Work, Travel and other stuff have filled my days and nights lately. However I have been doing some work with PSE-4 for some picture needs at work.

We just put online our updated site for RBB Systems, for which I did the photography and picture selection. Please check in out at: www.rbbsystems.com

In addition we have several complex systems, which we recently completed and it appears we will be building about 40 of these units a year. They have several computer boards in them with many jumpers and switches that need to be set correctly for the appropriate application. It was felt that a visual way of checking the settings was easier to use and also would be less susceptible to misinterpretation that just a written list. The result is the following two pictures which I did the photography and PSE-4 work on. Used lots of the things I learned in Sara's classes.

Hope to finish my actual lessons before November 5th, as that is when two new classes are starting. This 6 weeks I am taking another PSE-4 course along with a beginning HTML class. Wish me well.

PSE 4 - Making Your Photos Pop - Lesson 5

2006-10-14T20:02:00.000-04:00

Shown below are several examples of different Sharpening Techniques. Some of the effects may be too subtle to see well on the Web, but on my monitor and on the prints there was an improvement in all of the photos. The only factor may be that I picked the wrong technique for the photo in question. However I did learn the techniques and more practice will result in improvements.

Emboss Sharpening

Original

Sharpened Image

High Pass Filter Sharpening

Original

Sharpened Image

Contrast Mask Sharpening

Original
Sharpened Image

Edge Mask Sharpening

Original

Sharpened Image

PSE 4 - Collages - Lesson 4

2006-10-13T23:20:00.000-04:00

Lesson 4 was again a both a challenge and learning experience. I have posted the requested pictures along with an exercise to show some of what I learned. I tried my own version of the Displacement Map by puttin some lions onto clouds. The result was interesting though not very sucessful. The clouds did not have enough texture to show the technique effectively. However that's how you learn by trying things. With some more practice I can see the cool stuff you can do with the displacement map.

Shadow Portrait

Impressionist Brush

Original

After using the Brush

Exercise 7

Lions in the Sky Displacement Map

PSE-4 Collages Lesson 3

2006-10-10T22:54:00.000-04:00

Lesson 3 was both fun and challenging. The homework requested was a Collage using many layers and using as many techniques as possible that we have learned.

The result was a final Collage with 20 layers with many pictures as sources, all of which were enhanced and corrected before being modified to suit the collage. I used texture, blending layers, opacity and some things I don't remember. The Scroll Border was a project in itself. It was designed using a special shape as a brush and then duplicating and aligning around 40 layers. I am sure there is a better way to make a border, but I haven't learned that way yet.

I have also posted an exercise that made a darkened portrait. It was not a requested homework posting, but I really liked the result, which is of my son, Brian some 20 years ago. He is enjoying himself at a Walt Disney World Character Breakfast.

Comments and suggestions are always welcome.

Darkened Portrait

New Orleans Collage

PSE-4 Making Your Photos Pop - Lesson 4

2006-10-03T21:23:00.000-04:00

Three different effects in this lesson.

Vignette

Original

Vignette Result

Portrait

Original

Portrait Result

Selection and Gradient Fill

Original

Resultant Picture

PSE-4 Making Your Photos Pop - Lesson 3

2006-10-01T14:03:00.000-04:00

This lesson introduced me to many new tools and was quite challenging. I have to practice more with the cloning and healing tools. My first try was the Lion pair and while I was able to improve the picture, it is somewhat noticable that I cloned etc.

The Birders and Lions was just a fun way to clone from one picture to another. A fun look at Birding

Jackson Square in New Orleans turned out the best. It is impossible to get a picture of it without people around. Also very gray skies the day I took the picture. Note: the sky replacement was from a series of cloud pictures that I took one day when the clouds and sky were just perfect from the parking lot of my company. I tried to bring out something in the sky before I used my stock clouds, but to no avail. Hue changes we too obvious and looked fake. Nothing like real blue sky and clouds.

Lion Pair
Used: Burn Tool, Healing Brush, Cloning, Sharpen Tool, Smudge Tool and Sponge.

Original

Corrected

Cloning From Different Picture

Original
Clone

Jackson Square, NOLA
Used Crop, Resize, Straighten, Reduce Color Noise, Adjust Shadows, Stock Clouds, Clone Tool, Healing Brushes

Original

Corrected

PSE-4 Collages Lesson 2

2006-09-28T23:21:00.000-04:00

Used many techniques from this lesson and from previous lessons and classes. The only requested post was the Key Collage, however I was pleased with some of the other class exercises so I also posted Exercise 6, which modifed the edge of a picture and also a collage I did with my own pictures instead of the dandelion picture that was used in the lesson example.

I got carried away on the Key Collage, and the result may be too 'busy', but it was very fun to do and once you get started it is very hard to stop.

Key Collage

Exercise 6

Flower Collage

PSE 4 Making Your Photos Pop - Lesson 2

2006-09-24T12:12:00.000-04:00

This Lesson was on different ways to adjust exposure and lighting for print correction.

Buck Uncorrected

Buck Corrected using Levels

Buck Original Corrected using Highlights and Shadow Correction

Buck Black and White using Highlights and Shadows Method

Buck Black and White using Threshold Method

Three More Logo Trys

2006-09-21T12:48:00.000-04:00

RBB Logos Another Try

2006-09-20T22:23:00.000-04:00

PSE 4 Collages - Lesson 1

2006-09-17T00:56:00.000-04:00

This was a really fun lesson. Learned a lot about selections and made a couple of fun collages.

One-image Collage - Version 1

One-image Collage - Version 2

Scissor Cut Collage

Images Faded Together

Original 1

Original 2

Faded Result

PSE 4 Making Your Photos Pop - Lesson 1

2006-09-15T23:28:00.000-04:00

Note: The Airplane and Capital originals were taken on a cloudy day from the Potomac River using a 400mm lens on my Minolta SLR. The originals you see below have been cropped down to about 10% of the original thus losing some resolution. The original pictures aren't great, but they work well for this lesson.

Using Quick Fix

Before

After Quick Fix
using a number of Fix options

Using Many of the Blend, Selection, Color Cast and other tools

Before

After

Selection Hi-lite and Color Change

Original Flower

Selection Hi-lite

Color Replacement

Space, the Final Frontier

2006-08-20T00:23:00.000-04:00

I have finished the first 6 week course on PSE 4. I have signed up for two more courses that start on September 10th. In the meantime I am trying out some of the things I learned on some of my file pictures. This one is made up of pictures I have downloaded from the Picture of the Day Astronomy Website: http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/astropix.html
Hope you enjoy my artistic endeavors

PSE 4 Lesson 6

2006-08-16T00:47:00.000-04:00

Original One

Original Two

Faded/Blended Image

PSE 4 Lesson 5

2006-08-15T00:13:00.000-04:00

Original One
Original Two

Event Poster

Original

Cookie Cutter Feathered Edge

Cookie Cutter w/Stroked Edge

PSE Lesson 4

2006-08-13T02:02:00.000-04:00

Barrel Cactus Original

Barrel Cactus using Magic Selection Brush Tool

Stellenbosh Original

Stellenbosh using Magic Extractor

Disney Original

Disney Snapshot

PSE 4 Lesson 3

2006-08-08T23:10:00.000-04:00

Fish River Canyon Original

Fish River Canyon w/Warming Filter

Lilac Breasted Roller Original

Lilac Breasted Roller Desaturated and Cropped

RBB Logo Upgrades

2006-08-07T17:04:00.000-04:00

Sunset w/Adjustment Layer

Sunset w/Mask Darken Layer

Brushed Metal Satin

Satin

Satin Wave

Satin Sheets

Waves

Current Logo

PSE 4 Lesson 2

2006-07-23T01:17:00.000-04:00

PSE 4 Lesson 1 Homework

2006-07-16T04:52:00.000-04:00

Auto Smart Fix
I used the Auto Smart Fix and then the Auto Contrast

Quick Fix
Origianl is an off color negative scan
I used the following adjustments.
Temperature
Hue
Tint
Darken High Lights
Lighten Shadows

Sepia

Welcome

2006-07-16T01:10:00.000-04:00

Welcome to my Blog. I will be expanding what I do with it as time goes on. My initial reason for creating a blog is so that I can have an easy place to post my PSE 4 homework pictures for viewing.