Wizard

My experimenting with water splashes has led to this image so far. I am still not done and would like to refine it some more.

Water Splashes

 I started experimenting with water splashes and now I am going to try and use them to create other images.

 

Sketches

Here are my preliminary thumbnails. These are mostly just random ideas or brainstorming, no real thoughts on composition yet.

Leaf

Fall foliage

febreze loser spray

Avatar

Some new pictures I am thinking about getting printed and framed.

I took a couple macro shots right outside my house.

I also love these rocks on the beach.

Slow Children

Old Stuff

Just like me...

Shamu in the window

Together forever

Road to destruction

Lorraines Earrings

I took pictures of the earrings Lorraine has been making today.

Crush updated

I worked on the composite of Crush today. I like the new version much better.

Photoshop composites

I took an online class last week on PS composites and these are a few I have been working on using my old photos.

Plum Island Pictures

I went fishing for the first time on Plum Island yesterday and caught my first striper. It wasn't a keeper (must be 28" or larger) but it was still a lot of fun.

 Here are a couple more pictures from yesterday.

 

I just couldn't help myself...

Beginner Adjustments for contrast

 Step one :

control J to duplicate your layer.

 I like to use the high pass filter to sharpen my image. Especially one with all this fur.

 These are the settings I used for this photo. It is a smaller file so your settings could vary.

 Next I set the layer mode to Overlay and merged the layer down.

 Next I made a curves adjustment. This is an S shaped adjustment to kick up the contrast.

 here are the settings I used

Next I went to selective color

and adjusted the black and white settings.

This is an exaggerated adjustment for demonstration purposes and about all you can do in Beginner. 

Now for an advanced contest you can add the dodge and burn tools. Here I dodged out some more highlights (in the eyes and fur) and burned as well. (eyes, fur and created a slight vignette to bring the eye more into the center of the image.)