Watermark

Unfortunately, I had a number of my photos used without my permission and without acknowledgment during the 2008 football season. So....I created a tradename (Rock Bottom Studio) and logo that I can place on all of my photos before I upload them. Will it stop folks from "stealing" them? No.....but it could be helpful in litigation. Here is a photo that I took during the big fire at All Fired Up in Barre City back in October of 2008.

cloning

here's a little piece I put together for a friend when I shot her Senior Portraits. i'll upload the original, full fame shots and the final result so you can see what I did.

clone and paint

hopefully this is acceptable this week. fighting off a nasty case of the flu and not spending too much time in front of a computer. For my first example, I took a photo of country music singer Aaron Tippin that I took last summer. I really wanted to emphasize his guitar....so left that in color and changed the rest to black and white. kind of painting I think....painting with the eraser. i uploaded the original and the edit.

A personal note

This has been a really tough week for me....my good friend passed away from a cardiac arrest on Wednesday morning at the age of 32. His Mother gave me a place to stay when I was 14 and he was 7....and he was really like a little brother to me. We had grown apart over the last few years as I "grew up" and moved away from the bar scene that he still clung so tightly to. I mention this not for your sympathy....but as a reminder that we just never know when the last thing we said to someone may be the last chance we have to convey how we feel. Don't live to regret not saying or doing something...there are no guarantees that you'll have another chance.

Dodge Tool

Even though I have been using Photoshop for a number of years, I really have hardly ever much of its' potential and tools. My first try using the Dodge Tool with brighten the back of this archway so that the date would become visible. A person more experienced editing photos could also erase the car and totally change the photo. I tried but the result wasn't very good.

Filters

The first filter that I played with this week was called "Glowing Edges". I thought this shot from a car show of an old street rod with a flame paint job would make an interesting subject....and I think that I was right!



So...then I wanted to find a shot that might look cool using the Mosaic Tile filter. I settled on this waterfall but I'm not sure that it works as well as I would have liked. Since we had talked about mosaics last week, I stuck with it anyway.