Day 18 - Beautiful B & W

Many tips and techniques shown to us in this lesson at Beyond Layers with Kim Klassen

on creating Black & White images.

I embarked on capturing a few photos of our 16yr old daughter who

does not particularly want her picture taken.

It also happen to be St Patrick's Day, so I thought it appropriate to leave her

 eyes green with a little enhancement.

One would never know that she lay slouched

on the couch watching her favourite show as I clicked away.... barely

irritating her.............tee hee

85mm    f 1.8    1/60   ISO 200

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For this image taken a day later, she stood in the hallway

leaned up against the wall.....whilst I stood on a ladder,

as she is an inch or two taller than I.

 I wanted to reveal a bit of her personality

so she held her fiddle.

Her face is brightened by the sunlight reflecting off of the tile floor.

Also a gaussian blur filter and vignette were applied.

85mm     f1.8     1/125     ISO 200

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Day 15 & 16 -- Whispers

This week's prompt from Kim 'whisper'. I used the better part of her recipe in the video to work on my photo to make it soft and dreamy. I learned a few more Photoshop techniques. I LOVE the transformation of the image from 'before' to 'after'.

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A whisper can be so gentle and soft,

yet it's content can scream volumes.

WHISPER:

a gentle gesture

just between friends.

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This is my image straight out of the camera.

f5.6 ISO200 1/100sec





And a snapshot of my workings in Photoshop.

Day 14 - Brushes Deeper & Black & White with a Touch of Color

Black & White with a touch of colour.

That is our van in the background with a flat tire, so I thought

I would take advantage of the time that we had to

wait for CAA to arrive.
 (We also had a fresh coffee that we just picked up from Timmies)

A little extra - Texture Tuesday 'White'

I have decided to participate in Kim Klassen's Texture Tuesday challenge this week themed around 'white'.

 Using the same old barn as my last post, just from a different angle,

 I worked with my image in Photoshop using Kim's texture 'happy heart' twice at different opacities....

used RadLab, which is new to me, and used the font 'sweetly broken' for my text.