Congrats, Stefan, we’ve just upgraded your account!įrom an infinity pool with a view to a heli skiing trip, nothing gets our hearts racing like the promise of a luxury vacation getaway-if money or time were no object, that is. Anyone who enters will have the chance to win two months of free Awesome membership! This week’s lucky random winner is Stefan Geyer. To see the new theme for next week, click here.ĥ00px Awesome Subscription Giveaway WinnerĮvery week, we hold a random draw giveaway for all those who enter the contest. You may already have an existing photo that fits the theme, or you can take this as a challenge to shoot and upload a new photo. Eastern Time to submit your photo as an entry. You’ll have until next Wednesday, December 24 at 11:59 P.M. The beauty of it all is in experimentation, trying many different ways to shoot the images you want to shoot, and then trying many different ways to process your images, so that you get the image that expresses what you wanted to say with it in the first place.Want to be featured on 500px ISO? Every week, we’ll announce a new photo challenge theme. For me, it is often difficult to explain exactly how I made something or another. Each photographer has their own preferred ways to work. Remember, there are many ways to achieve similar results when you are processing images. This is a new edit, but this is the exact process I used to create “Seedling”. The resulting image is not identical to “Seedling”. In this case, I made some final Curves adjustments to this layer to get the contrast and brightness to be as I wanted it. Create a new layer (Layer 4) with all adjustments so far: Select -> All Edit -> Copy Merged Edit -> Paste. There are so many different ways to work with adjusting colour, it really doesn’t matter which one you use, as long as the final image is what you had in mind!Ħ. I used 2 copies of the colour layer, applied a violet filter to increase the pinks and tone down the greens in one, and brought back the greens with the second one by masking the green channel only. Set blending mode on Layer 3 to “Color”, and blur the layer using Gaussian Blur (at Radius 40)įor this next part, you can use whatever method you prefer to adjust the colors until they look right. Over-saturate Layer 3: Image -> Adjustments -> Hue/Saturation -> Leave all as is, except move middle slider (Saturation) to +100ĥ. Clear the selection, effectively leaving all but shadows in Layer 3: Edit -> Clear and then Command + D.Ĥ. Create a copy of the adjusted Layer 2 (Layer 3), and select shadows in this new layer: Select -> Color Range … -> Select Shadows, Fuzziness 100%, Range 0 -> Hit “OK”ģ. Create a copy layer to work on (Layer 2), and apply auto curves to this copy layer: Image -> Adjustments -> Curves -> Options -> Enhance Brightness and ContrastĢ. I liked the right-hand side of the image, and I liked the many colors I could see throughout the lighter parts of the image, in spite of it being so dark.įirst, I decided to crop to a square, and rotate a bit to get the angle I wanted:ġ. I opened the image in PSCC without any Camera RAW adjustments. However, I decided to use the dark (underexposed) image by itself. The image was intentionally underexposed by 2 full f/stops as part of a series of 3 bracketed images to possibly combine in HDR software. The light was from sunshine through a window, creating a backlight for the seedling. The seedling was sprayed with water in a vase, and I captured it at ISO 100, f/5.6, 1/800 sec. I shot this image on a Nikon D7000, using my macro lens-the Sigma 150mm f/2.8, without filters and flash. It is this combination of the sliver of sharpness with all the colorful circular blurs that “makes” the photo. There is just a sliver of sharpness throughout the photo-the rest is all blur. The focal plane in the image is very shallow. They vary in size, with the smaller circles being closer to the focal plane, and the larger ones further away. These circles are out-of-focus points of light. For this tutorial, “bokeh” refers to the light circles in the image.
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