Mission: Find the Light – Outside – Clear blue sky with my moon.
Mission: Finding the Light – Inside – Mesa Temple and the Savior three times bathed by AZ sunlight.
Mission: Control the Focus – Foreground – Santa Claus, Wise Man and Wonder Woman. (Yes, we keep them up all year for my developmentally disabled brother to see).
Mission: Control the Focus – Background – Brother’s three wise men in the window.
Mission: Plan the Composition Strong Leading Lines – Family Room wall.
Misson: Plan the Composition One Third Grid Lines – Samsung HDTV and Family Room wall.
I’m basically a novice with my DSL camera. It does have a ton of modes to shoot in. I just did a straight, no flash shot for the first one. The moon was in the sky acting as a second light. For the second shot I focused on the Mesa Temple picture on or wall and adjusted the telephoto lens in a bit. I used smart mode on it. My third shot I used smart mode. On my fourth I used the night shot mode. I think it turned out better than the third shot. My fifth shot I used landscape mode and the final one I brought the lens in closer. I’m not a photographer, but I’d like to learn how to use the camera better.
I used Photoshop to touch up the photos. I used the Levels tool to control the balance between light and dark in several shots. I used the hue/saturation tool very lightly on one photo and I used the color select tool on the blacks in the fifth image. I used the Vibrance tool several times and finally the Sharpening Tool. I learned somethings from the Photoshop tutorial one of the TA’s made. All in all, this was a fun project.
>^.”.^< Dan
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