As mentioned in my last SYS post, here are some photos that had a little extra work put into them.
Our new house, at night. I want to redo this with a tripod instead of a turtle pool (cropped out), more lights on and slightly shorter exposure. That and maybe an earlier longer exposure for the sky that I can try swapping out.
I know everyone has a selective colour shot. Now I do too. Since I saw this swing when we moved in a month ago I knew I wanted to do this shot. I'm reasonably happy with how it turned out - I followed Helen Bradley's excellent LR2 tutorial on this site to accomplish it.
Diptych. Was going to be a Triptych, but I didn't like the photo I got for the center, it just worked better this way. It's going to be a gift for Norm and Amanda, great friends of ours. Norm just lost 3 of his fingers to a sawblade last month, so I wanted to give them something cheerful, while letting me practice as a photographer.
Tryptich of my daughter at dance class. I know the center photo is out of focus, and yes, I softened the other photos and reduced the saturation of all of them. The light was really bad and I had a hard time getting good shots. I saw these beside each other in my LR folder and decided they might look nice. This is probably Rev 1.0 - I want to edit margin sizes a bit so that I can make these shots just a teensy wider.
Both the Tryptich and Diptyich are also compliments of a tutorial series on DPS, I think they may also be by Helen Bradley, but I'm not sure. Either way, this post really is an essay on how DPS has helped me as a photographer - all of these shots were inspired by tutorials found here, from night shooting (which I'm improving at steadily), the selective colour and the multi-capture prints.
Thanks DPS - you guys all rock. Contributers and Commenters alike are constantly helping me to improve my photography!