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For this photo I found a fantasy sky online, and replaced the sky in the photo, and then used gradient maps to make the colors on the photo match the colors in the sky. In this photo I used a curves layer to edit, I added more warm colors, and did an s curve inContinue reading “Advanced photo edits”

The first thing to avoid is a closed corner, this is a great photo, but the top left corner feels separate from the photo because it is so different. The next thing to avoid is a halved shape, this photo is also great but the right droplet is cut off by the frame and makesContinue reading “Things to avoid with composition”

I entered the viewbug “The Creators Exhibition” contest because I have experience with viewbug, and I was having fun looking through the submissions, it seemed like it was a contest that fit me, and I wanted to add to the submissions that I had fun looking through. I submitted this photo because I love TheContinue reading “Contest”

Macro photography is a way to get much closer to a subject than you would normally be able to, there are 3 main ways to do this, with a magnifying filter, extension tubes that are put onto your lens, or with a dedicated macro lens These photos were taken with a macro lens These photosContinue reading “Macro”

The goal for this photo was to have a picture of me floating in the air with water splashing around me This first photo was the subject, this way I have a good photo of the main part of the end product. This photo was for the background, I will have this layer under theContinue reading “Levitation”

For this photo, I opened up the source code of the photo and deleted random sections from it, I also pasted in some movie scripts to change the code of the photo. There are a few ways to do this, but I used notepad++ to open the code of the image.

There are 19 Adjustment Layers in photoshop, I will split them into 4 groups, Basic, Lighting, Color, and Miscellaneous. I will not cover each one in detail, but I will cover the ones I find helpful. Basic Color Fill, This one is pretty straight forward, it will fill with only one color, this can comeContinue reading “Adjustment Layers in Photoshop”

In this article I will go over 4 different camera modes, Manual mode, Aperture priority, Shutter priority, and Bulb mode. Manual mode is where you have full control of everything, the pros are that you can control everything to get the exact photo you want, the cons is that it’s more technical and it takesContinue reading “Camera Modes”

There are 3 parts to the exposure triangle, Aperture, Shutter Speed, and ISO Aperture, This is how much light the camera takes in, a large aperture (f/1.8) will let in a lot of light, while a small aperture (f/40) will let in very little light. Aperture will also change the depth of field, a largeContinue reading “The Exposure Triangle”

As you change focal length there will be two main things that change in your image, firstly the background will appear to be closer to the subject as the focal length gets bigger. Second, you will notice that the image will become stretched or squished at the extreme focal lengths, at a very high focalContinue reading “Focal Length”

The Pentax KP has 27 AF points, 25 of which are Cross-type. With the viewfinder there are 3 autofocus types, AF.A, AF.S, and AF.C. A would be used for casual shooting, the camera will decide whether to track a moving object or not, S will not follow a moving object, C will follow a movingContinue reading “AF Points on a Pentax KP”