Gardeners

July 3, 2012

Technique Experiment

I used the same technique on these as I used on Maya’s photograph the other day. Both of these were processed in Nik Color Efex Pro, then brought back into Photoshop where I merged the Nik and original layers. From there I created a new copy layer to which I added the Gaussian blur filter. Using the erasure at 40%, I removed the blur from our faces and hair. Then upping the strength of the eraser to 85%, I focused on removing more blur from the eyes to make them stand out. Kinda fun.

You may recognize this photo of my daughter from the shoot I did in October.

This shot of me is a new one, just shot yesterday. More work on my portraiture lighting, I was going for a dramatic look. I think a darker background would have been better, but I was focusing on the lighting on my face more than anything and I was too lazy at the time to hang the backdrop.

Evil Little Thing

T-shirt sold to help provide scholarship funds for Jessica Ahlquist, the sixteen-year-old Rhode Island high school student who won her lawsuit to have the prayer banner removed from her public high school gym, and who had to endure the wrath of her community for standing up for the separation of Church and State. Democratic State Representative, Peter Palumbo, called her “an evil little thing” during a radio interview.

She is a personal hero of mine.

The fellow to the right is my friend Jerry, a military veteran. I snapped this shot of him last October telling Jessica that she was the bravest person he’d ever met.