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Well, its been a busy week. I've gone through a bunch of photos, did some tweaking and filtering, started a deviantART account with the hopes of getting exposure and started to watch some really good video tutorials on lydia.com. The lydia.com tutorials were on a recommendation of a fellow photographer that I asked to look over the photos I posted. He's a photography hobbyist and felt that he couldn't really provide a critique but I think he is underestimating his talent. Anywhoo, he was kind enough to give me a few pointers that I hope to be able to put to use in the coming weeks. As for support on the home-front, my husband, James, thinks I have an eye for this sort of thing and encourages me which is great. He also knows a lot about photo editing which is really helpful.
Back to lydia.com... if you don't know, this is a paid membership site that provides video tutorials on various subjects, one of which is photography. Some of this may be basic concepts so for intermediate to experienced photographs this is probably not for you. But for someone who hasn't taken photography since high school it is well worth the membership for a month or two. I feel like I learned a lot in just the hour or so that I watched.
Well, there you have it. I hesitated about writing this for some reason but once I sat down to do it, voilà its done. Tune in next week and hopefully I'll feel as accomplished.
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It's a lovely photo, the low saturation brings out the smoothness of the flower. Again, was that achieved in post-production? :)
ReplyDeleteYes. I'll update and post the original picture.
DeleteJust wanted to say that I also like the original. I did this a while ago so can't remember exactly what I did. It looks like I just desaturated it.
DeleteI really like how you muted the colors in the orginal, it tends to draw you more to the overall image and not the saturation in the orginal. good job.
ReplyDeleteThank you!
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