Thursday, September 24, 2009

Something new

One thing I've never been too big on is portrait photography. This week I took some pictures of my friend Will. I found it kind of challenging trying to find his best angles and getting good lighting. We didn't get too many we were crazy about and I'm going to have a second try at it.
I did get a few ones I liked though.
original/edited
I liked this one mainly because it was a good one of his eyes. I fixed up his completion a bit and lightened around his eyes. I messed with the color a tiny bit to give it a warmer look.


I cropped this one down a bit, fixed the levels and converted it to black and white. I also used liquefy to fix his hair.

I also took some portraits of my little brother with his bike for a school project he had to do

I just decided to have fun with this one. I lightened his face, fixed the levels, messed with unsharp mask, and increased the reds in the picture



While browsing through some pictures, I came across this photographer and I really like the style of their portraits they have taken
http://benoitpaille.deviantart.com/gallery/#portrait

Wednesday, September 16, 2009

Bokehhhhhh



I decided to mess around with different bokeh techniques. I really love the look of it in photographs and I also messed around with changing the shape of my aperture to make a sweet effect. I just fixed the levels a bit in these pictures but, for the most part I liked how they turned out.



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