Looking into the Sun

Looking into the Sun, originally uploaded by Jersey Rich.

I only wish that I had a wider angle lens to capture the entire circle. This was shot using a Tamron 18-200 looking straight up. I keep the grid display turned on in my D80 so that I can try to align items such as this one.

Shy

This was from our recent trip to Florida. Taken in the Animal Kingdom at Disney, I found this guy/girl? off in a corner of the pond. I retouched and increased the saturation, added a blur filter, and increased the contrast to bring out the black in the beak and also darken the background shadows.

The image on the left is the original and the one on the right was the result of my editing efforts in Photoshop6. Why PS6? Because I got it for free! I've posted the image to a number of different group pools in Flickr and it's gotten many goood comments and awards. Personally, I didn't think it was all that good. I didn't like the way the edges of the trees looked with the gradiant I applied. I'm working on a couple of other ideas and will be posting them here.

More Photshop DA

These are latest attempts. I made use of the gradiant tool. This is a really handy tool that allows you to have complete control of how the color will blend, the direction it will blend from.

I took the picture of the Jesus statue about 2yrs ago. Although it looked neat to begin with I knew I could get a better look by tweaking the colors and adding the gradiants. I included before and after shots.

Digital Art - Flower and Stone

Here's another Photoshop image that I created from two pictures. I used a few more tools then the last post. I'm using Photoshop 6. It's a pretty steep learning curve. There's just so many things you can do and sometimes it's hard to figure out which way is the best way. It really depends on your workflow and what you're the most comfortable with.

Spooky Car

I've been doing lots of reading and tutorials on Adobe Photoshop. I'm currently using Version 6. I have always been a bit intimidated by this program, however, I decided it was time to really get into it. I've been learning about layers and what you can do with them.

There are things you can do in this program that are amazing. Here I took two photos and combined them into one. I used the extract tool to lift the car from it's source photo. I also worked with adjustment layers and gradient fill to blend the scene and render the overall color. This is a rough draft, I'll be posting another revised version that will look even better.

Glassboro Auto Show

These are a few of my favorite pictures from the Glassboro Auto Show held August 29, 2008. More of the pictures can be seen by following the link to my Flickr Photostream at the bottom of the page.