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Sunset on the River – 1/12/12 4:59 pm – Warm Slough, Hibbard, ID – Canon 7D – f/25.0 – 1.0” – 12.0 mm – ISO 100 – Tripod, shutter release

Original

Parrot – 1/20/12 5:06 pm – BYUI Green House, Rexburg, ID – Canon 7D – f/4.0 – 1/250 – 200.0 mm – ISO 100 – Flash

Sunset on the River –

For this photo I started out by adding a levels adjustment layer and adjusted it until I liked how the sky looked except for the yellow part. I then used black on the layer mask to revile everything except the sky. I then added another levels adjustment layer and adjusted it until I liked how the river and snow looked. I then used black on the layer mask to revile everything except the river and snow.  Next I added another levels layer and adjusted it to make the yellow in the sky look good. I used black on the mask to revile everything except the yellow in the sky. I then adjusted the vibrance of the colors with another adjustment layer. I added a cooling photo filter layer and then masked out everything except the blue sky. I used a smart filter to apply a smart sharpen to sharpen up the trees. I then used black to revile everything except the trees because I didn’t like what sharpening did to the sky. Making so many adjustment added some noise to parts of the photo so I used the reduce noise filter on everything except the trees.

Parrot –

First thing I did to this photo was tried to make the background a little better. I added a levels adjustment layer and adjusted it until I liked how the background looked. I then used black on the layer mask to revile the parrot. I then adjusted the levels for the parrot. I increased the contrast slightly on the parrot using an adjustment layer. I also increased the vibrance some. I used the unsharpen mask as a smart filter.