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?

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.

Pikes Peak in IR

I know this is a crappy photo of Pikes Peak, especially in IR, but I hadn't uploaded anything recently, so I picked this one out. Hopefully better stuff is to follow.

Kids are great...

As long as you don't own any of your own.

A bee and a Flower

BOOM!

It's not the best lightening photo, but I WILL get a better one in the next few days... soon... very soon...

Just a bug.

Sadly the lady bug was not eaten by the Black Widow. Would have been sweet though.

Ah, once again, doing L.E.P.

Just some normal type LEP.

Spider on a Drug Plant

I proved you can shoot Lightening during the day.

And here is the proof. It sucks compared to other stuff I have done, and even worse compared to stuff other people have done. But I shot this photo at 4:00PM in the afternoon.

Damn, should have kept my sword...

This is one of those moments... you wish the sword hadn't stayed in the guys chest...

Mutterings

Just another Photoshop Job on a normal photo.

Black and White.

I don't think I am all that good, but, here are my goes at Black and White.

LOOK! I /can/ take normal photos!

See! I AM able to take photos that aren't random abstract and IR! I think this one is pretty good. Sure it isn't the "normal" photo of one in flight... but if you have ever tried to track down a humming-bird and photograph it sitting on a limb... you know it is just as hard as getting one in flight.

More Photoshopage

Just some simple Photoshoping I did to a really terrible photo I took of my friends', sisters' little girl. I know the "Evil Red Eye" is overdone and taboo, but the little girl wanted me too, thus: "Evil Red Eye!

I like this glass.

I don't know why, I just love this photo. Other's scouf, but to them, I turn my nose up! Damn it! I like it!

Have some Grass

This is a photo of some grass shot in IR right as the sun disappeared behind the horizon.

Surprise!

These are some IR shots I photoshopped of my little girl Tabby!

Rust Point, Wonder Baby