My Photostream: art

Tuesday, May 11, 2010

Wednesday, April 21, 2010

HA! Suck it Noise!

BLAMO!

Also, everyone who owns Photoshop HAS TO also own NikSofts' Define plug in. It will chance your life forever! Especially if you are one of those people who needs to jump into wicked high ISO ranges.

Monday, April 19, 2010

Photoshop Tuts?

So I was thinking the last few days...

I no longer wish to tear out my own neck with my shaved-bone fingers, in a bloody cacophony of hatred and depression whenever I see a camera or Photoshop... In face I am enjoying taking pictures again, and shopping them.

I also realized that most of the tuts on the net, for Photoshop, are for strange crap, or fixing small things in a photo... But none of them show you just how to use Photoshop, or elaborate on what certain tools do, and why they are different from all the other ones.

So I was thinking I could fill this niche, that is if people actually would want to see something like that.

My question is: You guys think I should do that?

Some Shopped things!

These are some old Photo I found and Shopped. The Giraffe was in IR and needed a lot of work, and the Fey is a small model I bought and shot outside, then shopped to look like that. I was going to try to make it look "real" but I actually like it being "fakeish."

Thursday, August 6, 2009

Just some Boom and a nice IR shot

As the title says:

They totally suck, but I feel I should post them anyway, as that was probably the last great storm of the season.

More Lightening in the day.

Below are two photos, shot during the day from the same camera, in the same place, of the same storm. The first is HEAVILY Photoshopped. I had to crop the photo, then adjust the Levels to bring out the lightening in frame, then enhance the colors, then change their hue to make it easier to see and smooth out the color, then add a Soft Light Layer to smooth the color out. If I hadn't done all that, you would have only seen a bright white line in the sky. The second is photoshopped, however: I cropped the photo, then changed the Levels on an Adjustment layer, then masked off the lightening, enhancing the contrast of the lightening. As you can see by the ground, it is about 6:00pm Mnt. time.

Anyway, I enjoy capturing lightening during the day.

WARNING: Don't do this unless you are willing to run a VERY large number of cycles on your camera. I shot about 1,000 photos, and only two had any lightening in them worth showing off. Each frame was from ether 3 seconds or 1 second. This type of photography puts a MASSIVE strain on the camera, just remember that. Also, shooting lightening during the day can be very dangerous as you can see the flashing of lightening further off, or lightening that could be coming your way.

WTF? Color Digital IR sucks.

Alright, I was out last night shooting lightening. Unfortunately I missed any strikes with my IR camera, but I did get some great shots of clouds... The thing is... for some reason, my camera saw Purple in the clouds, not blue, like it should have. The following two photos are my favorite, and all I have done is Unsharppen Mask, then Saturate\Vibrance the colors. I did not add any, only enhance the ones that were already there... and when I did... What the hell? CDIR Photography is a fickle mistress.