Make a picture better

This weekend we went to a celebration of Texas and specifically Dripping Springs History. There were a lot of fun activities for our kids to do. They had a great time.

The picture I chose to work on in photoshop was this shot of Sydney grinding corn into cornmeal.

I cropped the picture and adjusted the light levels slightly. Then I straightened the horizon of the picture. I then attempted to sharpen Syd's face while leaving the motion blurred. Then I finished the picture off by cleaning up the stain on the front of Syd's shirt.

zoom

Brent and I spent an hour last night experimenting with night time photography.

This one is an airplane flying through the sky.

Click on the picture for a better view of the colors.

kind of fun.

Negative space

I've also really been debating on how to set up my negative space picture. Today I finally had a few minutes to play. I'm not sure that the picture is a great representation of negative space but I did have fun with what a came up with.

playing catch up

I have finally posted the cropped version of my preferred wide angle shot.