iHeartFaces – Creative Crop

Thanks to a link from a link from iHeartFaces… I got lost… nay, I found out how to manually set all sorts of stuff on my Nikon D40X, like aperture and shutter speed and, even more useful, how to use my viewfinder to check if the dang thing is going to be exposed even close to properly. So I grabbed my 13 year old, slapped some paint on her face and dragged her off to the railway station for some picture taking. By the time she’d warmed up to it I’d finally managed to get a hang of some of the buttons I’d read about and thought I understood. I’m still editing those, so  with continued frustration at my output I spent all day Thursday just taking photos with the flash off, swapping lenses and trying every combination of settings. I have some cracking photos of my feet. I noticed this little gem amongst what was, on the whole, pretty dire. I cropped it down to the good bit and played around with Lightroom and Photoshop and got this…

from this…

Gotta love Photoshop.

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