My son and his nephew have a love hate relationship. Wonder
what would happen if there were suddenly three Lil Scotts to
one Uncle Zach? Lol.

The photo on the left is unaltered. It was taken at about 8:30 p.m.
so the natural light was fading. I set my camera to night time
landscape.
In the photo on the right I used dodge/burn to lighten the trees
behind us. I then added a layer and whitend my shirt (on right).
I also tried for a little more change and added some soft pink in
another layer on a small bush to the right.

This is the original photo for this weeks assignment.

This is the altered photo. It was a night time shot of the
Hinesburg sky on the 4th of July. I first cropped the photo
to allow for the rule of thirds. I lightened the photo considerably
as I felt this was the best for the overall photo. The original had more
vibrant colors but was way too dark. I used the clone tool and the heal
tool to remove a part of a head and a light pole. I then adjusted the curve
a little bit. I have to confess having a hard time with all the tools and my
computer would lag making it harder.

The photo on the left is my daughter Sarah. I am practicing working with layers.
Each layer I added alloed me to manipulate a color or saturation. First I added white to her skin,
was the wild eyes, then her red lips and blood drops, then I changed her glass from white to blue.
I also adjusted the tint of the project in Picasa after I was done in GIMP.

The next photo is from the 4th of July fireworks. I added a floating layer that came from a photo
of my son in Afghanistan. The next layer left me blur the rough edges around my son and then the
final layer is the text. I really had a hard time with the text and am not sure how I finally
figured it out.:) I then played with the photo a bit more in Picasa, adding a blurred look to outer photo
which brough the focus more to my son than the fireworks.

I am definately going to keep playing with GIMP and Picasa.

I really like the last photo, the reflections are nice.

Landscape photos, DIgital photog

The last picture was a must . I was taking the shot of the trees near the river when the movement of these little guys caught my eye! The thrid shot is my favorite of this bunch. I have a few more I will try to post later.