tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-38669026644640998002024-03-19T05:40:27.050-07:00My name is Hannah | Portrait & Lifestyle photographyAuthentic images by Hannah Nicole.Hannah Nicolehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11591201948135426218noreply@blogger.comBlogger74125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3866902664464099800.post-57103285986466943382010-12-30T18:52:00.000-08:002010-12-30T18:52:09.377-08:00Surpise! { Personal }<center>Notice anything different? Hannah Nicole Photography has a whole new look and name! (domain name will be coming as soon as I'm not broke!)<br />
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Along with a new design, I've also got some pretty exciting news...<br />
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I was able to purchase my camera! I was so blessed this Christmas and am completely praising Jesus for my Canon. ( Yes, I went Canon. I just love them. ;) )<br />
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Get ready to see some new posts coming up, friends!<br />
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but because I can't end a post without a picture...</center><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
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</tbody></table><center> </center>Hannah Nicolehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11591201948135426218noreply@blogger.com12tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3866902664464099800.post-2148900464725093652010-12-05T20:06:00.000-08:002010-12-05T20:10:21.989-08:00i Heart Faces - Self Portrait Challenge<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjiLf5OnIA8Fl7AedMo6uwSrOV1ogy0g5WYP3V7zeQ2Hya8Khqw8R305HgOucIMZkNp5cx4EynIeb-vX4KEVmjwSqlpkeMXNADZRWas2Y9DxArkMpKDtLUurpDAVz-LZ8weXohvoCw7kMLf/s1600/GEDC28402.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjiLf5OnIA8Fl7AedMo6uwSrOV1ogy0g5WYP3V7zeQ2Hya8Khqw8R305HgOucIMZkNp5cx4EynIeb-vX4KEVmjwSqlpkeMXNADZRWas2Y9DxArkMpKDtLUurpDAVz-LZ8weXohvoCw7kMLf/s1600/GEDC28402.png" /></a></div>I just love this photo. Taken any self-portraits lately?<br />
<center><a href="http://www.iheartfaces.com/" mce_href="http://www.iheartfaces.com"><img mce_src="http://www.iheartfaces.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/05/I_Heart_Faces_Photography_125.jpg" src="http://www.iheartfaces.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/05/I_Heart_Faces_Photography_125.jpg" /></a></center>Hannah Nicolehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11591201948135426218noreply@blogger.com16tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3866902664464099800.post-68324827366500664992010-10-22T09:37:00.000-07:002010-10-22T09:37:44.341-07:00Strawberry MintRemember the action set I shared with you yesterday? Well, I'm kind of bummed because I forgot to save it, and then photoshop locked up and I had to shut it down, and then I opened it up again and it was gone.<br />
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But I've made a new set that I think is better than the other one, so it' s okay. In fact, it's pretty good. Small sneak peek...<br />
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<img src="http://i617.photobucket.com/albums/tt255/ElvishAuthoress/strawberrymint.png" alt="strawberrymintfromcandylandsneakpeek"><br />
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and the contest? coming soon. you'll see...:)<br />
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have a lovely day, sweet friends!Hannah Nicolehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11591201948135426218noreply@blogger.com7tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3866902664464099800.post-62782468956014701062010-10-21T10:40:00.000-07:002010-10-21T10:40:38.192-07:00I apologize for my absence...But I've missed you all. I've made some more photoshop actions while I've been gone (about five new sets) and will {hopefully} be selling them soon.<br />
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A sneak peek of the set <b>Candy Land</b>...<br />
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have a lovely day, sweet friends. ♥ and stay tuned...a contest coming up soon.Hannah Nicolehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11591201948135426218noreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3866902664464099800.post-51793147612578650102010-08-29T20:45:00.000-07:002010-08-29T20:45:48.295-07:00i heart faces :: Week 35 • PhotojournalismI was so excited for this week. My style of photography is photojournalism, so this was going, "BING!" for me. Like a hot cup of chai and a book in my hand. That kinda bing. Like everything's right with the world kind. You know what I'm talking about.<br />
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So I decided to enter this photo of Gracie...seen in <a href="http://2010-year.blogspot.com/2010/08/little-pixie.html">this post</a>. Of all the photos I took of her, this one spoke to me the most.<br />
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Ain't she a beaut? gorgeous little girlie. she makes a perfect pixie.<br />
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head over to iheartfaces and join! ciao, lovelies.<br />
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<center><a href="http://www.iheartfaces.com" mce_href="http://www.iheartfaces.com"><img src="http://www.iheartfaces.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/05/I_Heart_Faces_Photography_125.jpg" mce_src="http://www.iheartfaces.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/05/I_Heart_Faces_Photography_125.jpg"/></a></center>Hannah Nicolehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11591201948135426218noreply@blogger.com25tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3866902664464099800.post-69384798984071827732010-08-22T17:02:00.000-07:002010-08-22T17:02:42.273-07:00Little pixie...My sister Grace is a pixie. Or an elf. I'm convinced of it. She has some beautiful big blue eyes and a wicked sweet smile. But I love her serious faraway look most of all. Where she's dreaming.<br />
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Inspired by some photos by the <a href="http://thoseblissmoments.blogspot.com/">lovely Kat</a>, (not on her blog yet), I grabbed Grace and made up her face. Royally. Next time I'm going to try face paint as well. Then I took her outside at my grandparents for a mini shoot. She was happy, but asked if they'd go on my blog.<br />
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She knows me well. Of course they are, sweet girl.<br />
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Which is your favorite?<br />
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<img src="http://i617.photobucket.com/albums/tt255/ElvishAuthoress/GEDC00672.png" alt="beautifulbluebaby">Hannah Nicolehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11591201948135426218noreply@blogger.com13tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3866902664464099800.post-61939121195574801592010-08-15T21:01:00.000-07:002010-08-15T21:01:13.968-07:00i heart faces :: Week 33 • Gotta wear shades!<div style="text-align: center;"></div><center><a href="http://www.iheartfaces.com/" mce_href="http://www.iheartfaces.com"><img mce_src="http://www.iheartfaces.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/05/I_Heart_Faces_Photography_125.jpg" src="http://www.iheartfaces.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/05/I_Heart_Faces_Photography_125.jpg" /></a></center><div style="text-align: center;"></div><div style="text-align: center;">Photo taken while we were up at Woodland. My funny, darling, quirky, silly, and completely gorgeous sister, Chloe.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_QTwCH0WARPI/TGi3i3IZyEI/AAAAAAAAC60/EBUOU7Egleg/s1600/GEDC1604.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_QTwCH0WARPI/TGi3i3IZyEI/AAAAAAAAC60/EBUOU7Egleg/s640/GEDC1604.png" /></a></div>Hannah Nicolehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11591201948135426218noreply@blogger.com19tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3866902664464099800.post-2540367112152504442010-07-26T07:37:00.000-07:002010-07-26T07:38:01.967-07:00i heart faces :: Week 30 • Purple Photo Challenge!<div style="text-align: center;"></div><center><a href="http://www.iheartfaces.com/" mce_href="http://www.iheartfaces.com"><img mce_src="http://www.iheartfaces.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/05/I_Heart_Faces_Photography_125.jpg" src="http://www.iheartfaces.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/05/I_Heart_Faces_Photography_125.jpg" /></a></center><div style="text-align: center;"></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: center;">This week's challenge was purple. So I thought of this picture. Taken about a month ago of my brother. I love his face.</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
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</div><div style="text-align: center;">What's your favorite purple entry so far?</div>Hannah Nicolehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11591201948135426218noreply@blogger.com15tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3866902664464099800.post-40958386793483019672010-07-22T06:54:00.000-07:002010-07-22T06:54:46.144-07:00CalebooMy sweet brother Caleb. At Woodland. Trying on my aunt's snorkle.<br />
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I love this guy. ♥Hannah Nicolehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11591201948135426218noreply@blogger.com8tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3866902664464099800.post-7908435430393472162010-07-19T05:43:00.000-07:002010-07-19T05:46:08.271-07:00i heart faces :: Over My Head<div style="text-align: center;"></div><center><a href="http://www.iheartfaces.com/" mce_href="http://www.iheartfaces.com"><img src="http://www.iheartfaces.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/05/I_Heart_Faces_Photography_125.jpg" /></a><br />
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I was bummed for this week, because I didn't think that I had <i>any</i> photos with anything overhead. So I browsed through one of my main photo-saving folders on my computer, and found this picture.<br />
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Cloud overhead. And a sweet little girl.<br />
<a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_QTwCH0WARPI/TERICDHBvCI/AAAAAAAAC4I/GdcsPUeNHfI/s1600/BelleFly.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_QTwCH0WARPI/TERICDHBvCI/AAAAAAAAC4I/GdcsPUeNHfI/s640/BelleFly.png" /></a></center><div style="text-align: center;"></div><center>ps. Yikes. Mine has a face in it...but you can only see the back. Ouch. Hopefully that counts...</center>Hannah Nicolehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11591201948135426218noreply@blogger.com6tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3866902664464099800.post-33443663054409214402010-07-16T08:06:00.000-07:002010-07-16T08:32:03.509-07:00i heart faces :: Fix-It Friday #62<div style="text-align: center;">I'm joining in <a href="http://www.iheartfaces.com/2010/07/fix-it-friday-62-%E2%80%A2-photo-editing-fun/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+Iheartfaces+%28I+Heart+Faces%29">Fix-It Friday</a> on i heart faces. Here's the original picture of this darling little girl, taken by <a href="http://www.atomicegg.com/photography-gallery/">Amy Locurto</a>.</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
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</div><div style="text-align: center;">Here's my edit. I used my <a href="http://2010-year.blogspot.com/2010/07/woodland-set-some-actions-that-im.html">Sunkissed Action</a> on it to give it a warm boost, then sharpened it a little.</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
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</div><div style="text-align: center;">What do you think?</div>Hannah Nicolehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11591201948135426218noreply@blogger.com11tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3866902664464099800.post-16689831257803227662010-07-12T13:21:00.000-07:002010-07-12T13:21:16.859-07:00The Woodland Set - Some actions that I'm loving...In the middle of vacation last week, I hung out in my cabin and my grandparent's cabin and worked on making some more actions...aka, I was recuperating from a sunburn and wanted to just sit. However...the first set (entitled <I>The Darling Set</i>) got deleted because I forgot to save them, and then photoshop shut down on me. I was really, very irritated (as I'm sure anyone would be) and instead of exactly "re-creating" the actions, I created a new set of actions that are much improved and simply lovely. I've fondly named this new set of mine, The Woodland Set. Complete with 13 actions, they all have a dreamy, vintage and melancholy feel to them. On my <a href="http://manyrandommusings.blogspot.com/2010/07/in-one-years-time.html">recent post on my regular blog</a>, I used (some) of these actions on my pictures. So I'm very excited to show you them...<br />
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What do you think? ♥ (PS--I made the goodbye action as we were leaving the resort. Literally.)<br />
<I>note. due to the feedback received on the previous action set, I'm looking to possibly sell my actions. Your thoughts on that are...?</I></center>Hannah Nicolehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11591201948135426218noreply@blogger.com10tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3866902664464099800.post-91920632050826623442010-07-03T04:49:00.001-07:002010-07-03T04:49:57.212-07:00I'm off to the bestest place on earth......(and yes, I'll say bestest if I want to, thank you very much.) Letting you all know! You can read about it <a href="http://manyrandommusings.blogspot.com/2010/07/and-im-off.html">here</a>. Goodbye, my lovelies! See you very soon. Pictures after I return! :-)Hannah Nicolehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11591201948135426218noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3866902664464099800.post-87756797884091664492010-06-23T10:49:00.000-07:002010-06-23T10:49:47.025-07:00Eyes are the windows to the soul...definitely a beautiful soul hereMy neighbor Belle seems to be in the majority of my pictures. Once again, she was my willing model...this time, holding as still as possible so I could snap her eyes. All taken with my point and shoot.<br />
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I love the DOF on this one (above). Just the tips of the lashes are in focus. <3<br />
<img src="http://i617.photobucket.com/albums/tt255/ElvishAuthoress/e7e.png">Hannah Nicolehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11591201948135426218noreply@blogger.com12tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3866902664464099800.post-16596912760881072612010-06-20T07:15:00.000-07:002010-06-20T07:15:15.840-07:00Sun<div style="text-align: center;">I love the sun...photo taken a few weeks ago. </div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
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(Photo courtesy of my mom.)Hannah Nicolehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11591201948135426218noreply@blogger.com14tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3866902664464099800.post-67347958708979757642010-06-04T06:26:00.000-07:002010-06-04T06:26:22.551-07:00After a few shots...<div style="text-align: center;">...I got this one of my eye.</div><div style="text-align: center;"><img src="http://i617.photobucket.com/albums/tt255/ElvishAuthoress/hannaheye.png"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: center;"><i>Taken with my GE point and shoot</i></div>Hannah Nicolehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11591201948135426218noreply@blogger.com11tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3866902664464099800.post-4237891174328039072010-05-28T05:22:00.001-07:002010-05-28T05:26:05.527-07:00i Heart Faces :: Fix-It Friday<div style="text-align: center;">Click <a href="http://iheartfaces.blogspot.com/2010/05/fix-it-friday-56-hands-on-photo-editing.html?utm_source=feedburner">here</a> to submit your own fix-it Friday pic!</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: center;">Original</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_QTwCH0WARPI/S_-14opBy_I/AAAAAAAACtA/wItggELyAAU/s1600/original1.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_QTwCH0WARPI/S_-14opBy_I/AAAAAAAACtA/wItggELyAAU/s320/original1.png" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
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</div><div style="text-align: center;">I sharpened it, edited the brightness/contrast as well as the levels, then added a nik color stylizer effect. It's a little darker than I wanted, but it does give it that POP that I was looking for.</div>Hannah Nicolehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11591201948135426218noreply@blogger.com12tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3866902664464099800.post-24383618470115553382010-05-21T04:43:00.000-07:002010-05-21T05:15:21.590-07:00Your Photo & My Edit<div style="text-align: center;">My good friend Seth sent me this photo of his little brother, Ezra! (I've really grown attached to Looly. And by attached, I also mean he's attached at my hip. :-)) The original photo is very good but I really wanted to add emphasis to Ezra's face. Lot of brightening (brightness/contrast as well), some levels (I think), smoothing, bringing more contrast and brightening the eyes (as well as deepening the shadows and bringing up the midtones), just a lotta stuff for this pic. I love it though. He is now my desktop background. ;-)</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
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</div><div style="text-align: center;">Melody sent me this lovely picture of some dewdrops and I really wanted to bring attention to the dewdrop that was in focus. I added a layer at soft light, added another layer and painted white over the plant, then put that on soft light, then I added another layer at (I think) purple and added a texture to it, putting the texture at either multiply or soft light. Then I cropped it to bring even more attention to the dewdrop. (I'm probably forgetting some steps here, as I just went crazy!)</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
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</div><div style="text-align: center;">Sarah sent this beautiful picture, which had fairly good quality, but the background was distracting and the color was a little off. I did some smoothing, retouching, cropping, edited the levels & brightness/contrast, then added a color Stylizer at brown (nik color effects).</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
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Want me to edit your photo? Drop me an email at aspireblog[at]hotmail[dot]com and I'll get working! :-)Hannah Nicolehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11591201948135426218noreply@blogger.com7tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3866902664464099800.post-36925365503957997012010-05-20T08:28:00.000-07:002010-05-20T08:28:15.296-07:00Your Photo & My EditI thought it would be kind of fun to have you gals (and guys) send in an unedited photo of your own for me to play around with and gussy it up.<br />
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Whaddya say? If you're interested, attach the photo as a file and send it to aspireblog[at]hotmail[dot]com.<br />
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Seeya around, friends...<br />
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<center><I>Before & After. Taken with my GE point and shoot.</i></center>Hannah Nicolehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11591201948135426218noreply@blogger.com6tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3866902664464099800.post-14842409805015665802010-05-19T11:20:00.000-07:002010-05-19T11:21:17.078-07:00This old red trike...<center>...is loved.<br />
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<I>Taken with my GE point and shoot</i><br />
</center>Hannah Nicolehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11591201948135426218noreply@blogger.com8tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3866902664464099800.post-26945423405577703742010-05-17T19:21:00.000-07:002010-05-17T19:23:16.596-07:00My lovely little neighbor<div style="text-align: center;">Is she not gorgeous? Sweet Belle, darling. She and Grace heartily let me take 200 some pictures of them. :-)</div><div style="text-align: center;"><img src="http://i617.photobucket.com/albums/tt255/ElvishAuthoress/GEDC6833.png" /></div><center><i>taken with my GE point and shoot</i></center>Hannah Nicolehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11591201948135426218noreply@blogger.com10tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3866902664464099800.post-43551482395028299042010-05-11T13:05:00.001-07:002010-05-11T13:19:54.010-07:00Savor the unexpected<div style="text-align: center;">Such as when I decided to take pictures of some strawberries against this green container of ours...<br />
<img src="http://i617.photobucket.com/albums/tt255/ElvishAuthoress/strawberries.png"><br />
...and Brennan decided he wanted to eat them.</div><div style="text-align: center;"><img src="http://i617.photobucket.com/albums/tt255/ElvishAuthoress/brennanstrawberries.png" /></div>Hannah Nicolehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11591201948135426218noreply@blogger.com6tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3866902664464099800.post-10722516141590981892010-05-10T16:03:00.000-07:002010-05-10T16:04:26.050-07:00The power of editing...<div style="text-align: center;">I love photoshop. Period. It's incredible software and I find that it's been extremely beneficial in my photo-editing. However, I don't like to go <i>too</i> over the top with my editing. If I'm going for a vintage look, then I'm going for a vintage look. I'm not going to get to the point where my image has become posterized and grainy just to try to achieve the color effect I wanted. And I certainly don't want to make my images too <i>over</i>-edited, unless I'm going for such a look that it <i>has</i> to look that way (such as vintage, or cross-processed, etc....)</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: center;">So here's my basic image. Unedited excepting the size. Not a bad photo by itself.</div><div style="text-align: center;"><img src="http://i617.photobucket.com/albums/tt255/ElvishAuthoress/original.png" /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: center;">And here's my first edit. I played with the levels a bit, brightness/contrast, and duplicated my photo layer and set the duplicate onto soft light. It gives it more contrast and vivider colors without been <i>too</i> obviously edited.</div><div style="text-align: center;"><img src="http://i617.photobucket.com/albums/tt255/ElvishAuthoress/edit1.png" /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: center;">For my second edit, I just added two or so duplicate layers of the original image and set them onto soft light. Then, in between the two duplicate layers, I put a new layer and filled it with a blue tone and set that to soft light. I might have tampered with the opacity of that layer a bit. Not sure. This edit is a little strong (see top-right corner) but it works okay. In the future, I'd probably switch up the degree of the brightness/contrast and the opacity of the levels.</div><div style="text-align: center;"><img src="http://i617.photobucket.com/albums/tt255/ElvishAuthoress/edit2.png" /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: center;">I don't really like this edit. Although black and white is a beautiful medium, for this image, it isn't working. Mainly because the focus of the photo is in the top-right corner, and with the black and white it's not as distinguishable. This one was a simple edit though. Black and white and then bumped up the contrast a little bit (I think). </div><div style="text-align: center;"><img src="http://i617.photobucket.com/albums/tt255/ElvishAuthoress/edit3.png" /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: center;">Now for this one, I was going for a vintage look. I added a layer and filled it with yellow, then added another layer and filled it with purple, and set them both to soft light. Then I messed around with the curves a lot to achieve that vintage effect. I'm pretty sure I did something with the brightness and contrast as well, and I might've added a duplicate layer of the original image between the yellow and purple layer. </div><div style="text-align: center;"><img src="http://i617.photobucket.com/albums/tt255/ElvishAuthoress/edit4.png" /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: center;">Now that you've seen how I edit (some) of my pictures, here's how I try NOT to edit them like...</div><div style="text-align: center;"><img src="http://i617.photobucket.com/albums/tt255/ElvishAuthoress/bad1.png" /></div><div style="text-align: center;">From far away, it doesn't look terrible, but I edited the brightness/contrast (and I think duplicated the original image/put it on soft light) so much that it's easy to tell that it's been (poorly) edited. I don't like images that are very over-edited...pretty much NO exceptions there. Also, it's getting posterized (again, see top-right corner) and that makes for a very fakey looking image.<br />
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So that's basically what I do. I have some actions that I've downloaded that I play with, but I do feel like I'm cheating whenever I use them. I've been trying to start editing from scratch...and it's pretty fun.<br />
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Have a happy editing day!</div>Hannah Nicolehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11591201948135426218noreply@blogger.com9tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3866902664464099800.post-62530199743355804012010-05-05T18:51:00.000-07:002010-05-05T18:51:14.455-07:00Simple flowersWith the sunlight illuminating them. Beautiful sunlight.<br />
<img src="http://i617.photobucket.com/albums/tt255/ElvishAuthoress/flowerlight.png" />Hannah Nicolehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11591201948135426218noreply@blogger.com8