Graffiti Overload

Today's challenge word is Graffiti.

Not hard to find here in Sydney.

Another Beautiful Morning's Walk

    Had to share this beautiful morning

Easter Sunday Adventure Day

Centennial Park, Sydney

Happy Easter

Cloning

I've been waiting for this to be the word of the day, so excited to give it a go.
Here are the steps i took to get the final photo:

1. Set up your tripod & camera capturing the whole area for cloning. Check lighting etc & take a photo of the background. Do not move the camera after this shot is taken.

2. Start with your first pose & take the photo (i used a remote set on a 3 second delay) & follow with the rest of the poses you want.

3. Once all your poses are taken, they are ready for editing.

4. Do not start with colour correcting any photos, leave raw for now.

5. Using the the Rectangular Marquee tool, select around the area of the first pose, copy & then paste in a new layer on the photo of the background. Line up the first pose with the background photo.

6. Repeat step 5 with your next pose. If the 2 poses are overlapping use the eraser (soft brush) to remove excess background.

7. Repeat for the rest of your poses.

8. Once all poses are done flatten layer.

9. Colour correct.

10. I used the "Smart Sharpen"  to define the image as well.

Final Image: 

Ring Final Shots

I took inspiration from this photo today, thought it had great composition & was interesting enough rather than just shooting the ring on its own.

 

This is my very favorite ring of all time. It's a one-off ring that cost me the price of one of my arms. I'm a Leo & i'm obsessed with big cats so i figure it suits my personality to a T.

 

The editing process was as follows:

1. Colour correct

2. 30% Bring on Eyes Action

3. 50% Sharpen This Action applied to eyes, nose, mouth & rings & flatten

4.Apply Glamour Glow Skin Technique & flatten

You can watch it here:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=64-23bvHi3Q

5. Select Eyes & copy to new layer

6. Colour Balance, make opacity 50%

7. Smart Sharpen:

Amount - 91

Radius - 9.3

Remove - Gaussian Blur

8. Erase excess colour around eyes & flatten

 9. Apply Cooler Action & flatten.

To achieve the below colouring just add the Vintage Action

& make opacity 50%.

  

Rings Inspirations

Next photo word is "Rings", here are a few ideas to get the creative ball rolling: