My oldest daughter Tennille has been wanting to get me out for a photo shoot. This past Fathers Day was the best day for it. I was lucky enough to have the day off! How about that! We were at my In-Laws house in Brownsville. We ventured across the street where there is a huge hill to climb. It was well worth it when you got to the top though. A beautiful large field of wildflowers. I would have liked to taken the photos closer to dusk but the only time we had was right after church. The sun was high in the sky and quite bright. Luckily, the D90 has the awesome D-Lighting feature that helps in just this type of situation! I wanted to get that soft, wildflower, country-ish, kind of look. I really lowered my depth of field to have most of the flowers out of focus to 5.6. Shutter speed 1/250. ISO 200. For white balance, I selected direct sunlight. In photoshop I did a little clone stamping for the light blemishes. Dodged the eyes to make 'em pop. I created a layer and Noise Ninja'd it to soften it up. I then erased through the eyes for definition. I cropped the photo vertically a little past the top, then used the marquee tool to encompass the whole picture and pulled it a little to stretch it up, and then recropped back to a 2:3 aspect ratio. Easy right?!?
Tuesday, June 23, 2009
My oldest daughter Tennille has been wanting to get me out for a photo shoot. This past Fathers Day was the best day for it. I was lucky enough to have the day off! How about that! We were at my In-Laws house in Brownsville. We ventured across the street where there is a huge hill to climb. It was well worth it when you got to the top though. A beautiful large field of wildflowers. I would have liked to taken the photos closer to dusk but the only time we had was right after church. The sun was high in the sky and quite bright. Luckily, the D90 has the awesome D-Lighting feature that helps in just this type of situation! I wanted to get that soft, wildflower, country-ish, kind of look. I really lowered my depth of field to have most of the flowers out of focus to 5.6. Shutter speed 1/250. ISO 200. For white balance, I selected direct sunlight. In photoshop I did a little clone stamping for the light blemishes. Dodged the eyes to make 'em pop. I created a layer and Noise Ninja'd it to soften it up. I then erased through the eyes for definition. I cropped the photo vertically a little past the top, then used the marquee tool to encompass the whole picture and pulled it a little to stretch it up, and then recropped back to a 2:3 aspect ratio. Easy right?!?
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