Vanessa Paxton’s PhotoBlog

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Because I’m using my 50mm (on a non-full sensor camera at that) my framing is very limited. So I took three shots and stitched them together. That way I can still shoot at f1.8 and still preserve the detail & quality all round.
Oh and here’s my lovely helper Mitchy

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I wish I’d kept the PSD of all the color work I did. Next time I’ll try to make note.

The elements:

The crop:

The edit:

I mainly just boosted the contrast for this. There’s not much you can do in terms of vignetting and color when working with a “black board.”

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Curiosity killed the cat

Scenery created using my own stock images of grass/landscape. Sometimes I’ll use the same base image for multiple compositions, but of course I always crop & edit according to the scene I envision. For this particular set up I played with the color balance, and hue & saturation to make the [...]

Here’s a visual demonstration of how I did it!