A Year in the Life - Dailies 2009-2010
Photo diary project in which I would ideally take one photo a day as a sort of 'image diary' of life. However, we all know that I'm not going to take a photo a day, although we can all die of shock if I do find the time to do that. I'd love to have stunning images all, but the main point is to document life through one photo per day.
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December 31, 2010
Toby 5 Modern Painting, Topaz Adjust filter
A fairly goofy shot of Toby, my friend's fabulous rat terrier. The shot SOOC was fairly unusable. He was sitting next to her on the sofa with a large sliding glass door behind him that let in a ton of light behind him and hid his face in shadow. So I kind of changed the background by playing with it (don't ask me how, used about 100 steps in playing with it), then pumped up the light, clarity and contrast on Toby, then ran it through Corel's Painter Photo Essentials at that point since it really seemed to cry out for a modern, edgy, slightly weird and goofy feel. Used the modern painting setting then went back in and used the soft clone brush to uncover eyes, nose, mouth, whiskers and some fur.
Thanks for all the comments over the last few days! So good to be back and I am loving seeing all your amazing shots.
Now off to try to set up my 2011 gallery. And thank you for your input on that. I think '2011' will do fine as a title. :)
Toby 5 Modern Painting, Topaz Adjust filter
A fairly goofy shot of Toby, my friend's fabulous rat terrier. The shot SOOC was fairly unusable. He was sitting next to her on the sofa with a large sliding glass door behind him that let in a ton of light behind him and hid his face in shadow. So I kind of changed the background by playing with it (don't ask me how, used about 100 steps in playing with it), then pumped up the light, clarity and contrast on Toby, then ran it through Corel's Painter Photo Essentials at that point since it really seemed to cry out for a modern, edgy, slightly weird and goofy feel. Used the modern painting setting then went back in and used the soft clone brush to uncover eyes, nose, mouth, whiskers and some fur.
Thanks for all the comments over the last few days! So good to be back and I am loving seeing all your amazing shots.
Now off to try to set up my 2011 gallery. And thank you for your input on that. I think '2011' will do fine as a title. :)
December 31, 2010
Toby 5 Modern Painting, Topaz Adjust filter
A fairly goofy shot of Toby, my friend's fabulous rat terrier. The shot SOOC was fairly unusable. He was sitting next to her on the sofa with a large sliding glass door behind him that let in a ton of light behind him and hid his face in shadow. So I kind of changed the background by playing with it (don't ask me how, used about 100 steps in playing with it), then pumped up the light, clarity and contrast on Toby, then ran it through Corel's Painter Photo Essentials at that point since it really seemed to cry out for a modern, edgy, slightly weird and goofy feel. Used the modern painting setting then went back in and used the soft clone brush to uncover eyes, nose, mouth, whiskers and some fur.
Thanks for all the comments over the last few days! So good to be back and I am loving seeing all your amazing shots.
Now off to try to set up my 2011 gallery. And thank you for your input on that. I think '2011' will do fine as a title. :)
Toby 5 Modern Painting, Topaz Adjust filter
A fairly goofy shot of Toby, my friend's fabulous rat terrier. The shot SOOC was fairly unusable. He was sitting next to her on the sofa with a large sliding glass door behind him that let in a ton of light behind him and hid his face in shadow. So I kind of changed the background by playing with it (don't ask me how, used about 100 steps in playing with it), then pumped up the light, clarity and contrast on Toby, then ran it through Corel's Painter Photo Essentials at that point since it really seemed to cry out for a modern, edgy, slightly weird and goofy feel. Used the modern painting setting then went back in and used the soft clone brush to uncover eyes, nose, mouth, whiskers and some fur.
Thanks for all the comments over the last few days! So good to be back and I am loving seeing all your amazing shots.
Now off to try to set up my 2011 gallery. And thank you for your input on that. I think '2011' will do fine as a title. :)