Photography Week - Day 5

I used Photoshop for the first time today! I got some help from Mitchell as well as looking stuff up online for help. I picked a photo that I took of Joseph on Sunday that I really liked, but I cut his toes off and it looked awkward. So I cropped it and then learned some techniques and practiced them.

Here's the Before & After:

We also went to a spot along the Provo River for a picnic, and for Mitchell to paint. I was able to get a few good pictures, although I didn't get to try everything I wanted because Joseph and Annabelle were terrified of the bugs and they thought they saw a snake. 

Here are some of the photos I took, some touched up, some not:

Taken looking up at the sky. I liked the way that the trees framed the sun. This is the Photoshopped version.

Another on looking at the sky, but from another angle and in portrait. This one has been Photoshopped, too. I'm not sure which one I like better.

This is the little duck that would not leave us alone. She kept coming over and looking for food. She even tried digging through our grocery bag of lunch food. This was the best I could get of her because I was nursing Charlie at the time. This is the original photo.

I thought this tree looked cool, and like it might have been chewed on by a beaver... I played around with this in Photoshop. 

I liked the way the water was hitting that tree. I did a little Photoshopping to try and emphasize the water rather than all the yellow flowers.

I felt like those boulders and rocks looked so cool "holding" up the side of the river. I also like how this photo just naturally has the warm glow and vibrant colors that I was trying to put into the other photos through Photoshop.

Next are a few photos of me. I haven't touched up any of them because I don't know which is best. I like the cool effect the sun gave in the first one, but I don't know if I like it the most.

It's been so fun to keep trying to take new kinds of photos, and now learning how to fix them up or make them look a little different through Photoshop. I want to work on fixing up photos of everyone else in the family so that I can get them all printed and framed. I wish I could get a family photo, but I would need a camera with a timer and a tripod and that won't be happening for a long time...