I finally feel like I am getting back into my blogging routine after it was abruptly interrupted a few weeks ago by a family emergency. This afternoon I began Week One of a Digital Photography Webinar Course generously offered by the guys at Creative Techs. I am also signed up for their 6 month Photoshop course which begins tomorrow and then a Lightroom Course which begins on September 14th. I am a firm believer in “the learning never stops”. Can’t you tell?
Back to my original reason for this post. A blogging friend of mine, Laura, over at DolcePics posts a photograph and asks her readers to edit the photograph and explain what we did. This photograph really captured my attention. Here is the original photograph:
This is my first edit I did of the photograph. I upload this photograph to Photobucket since I am not skilled at Photoshop yet hence the class I am beginning tomorrow, and first I cropped the photograph to focus on what I believer the photographer wanted to capture. The groom fingering his newly placed wedding band. I also vignetted the photograph to further emphasize the subject of this photograph.
Another way to emphasize the subject of your photograph, especially if it’s to be displayed online, is to frame out the photograph as I have done here in my second edit of this photograph. Before adding the frame, I also blurred the edges so that the main point of this photograph was all that was in focus. You can also achieve the blurring around the edges while taking the photograph. To do this, you would want to use an aperture of f/7.0 to f/4, depending on your camera’s settings.
One last thing before you go, would you answer this polling question for me, I would greatly appreciate it…