#1 & #3 are nice shots. #2 is getting creative but the curtain makes her look like she has dirt on her. You might want to try it again but keep the curtain from being over her. That would give you the creative use of the texture without making her look like she's been working on a truck.
One other thing
after you make your mask from the sleigh and der selection you can unlink the layer and the mask and move the tree and resize it any way you wish.
Happy to find a fellow photographer that packs heat when they hit the streets or country roads. Happy shooting
hope you capture lots of great photos. If you should run across some miscreant out to steal your stuff of do you harm
happy shooting in that instance also.
A way with HDR to make better pictures with more choices is to generate pictures with different settings for parts of the photo and then blend them together with layer masks. Say
one for the sky; one for the foliage and one or two for the water. You'll be amazed at the difference.
When your house has a behind like that you don't need fall colors.
Hah
as Homer & Jethro used to sing
"Cigarettes and Whiskey and Wild, Wild Women
"
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we ain thaht hawrd tuh unnerstan. (=0})
For a quick "old" look PS has a sepia Action. It's not the most creative old look around, but it is fast and it is a start. If you're doing this stuff "in camera" you're stuck with it
take a straight color shot and do your alterations with PS or other image editing software. NIK Silver Effects is a great filter for that sort of thing and you can get a free 30 day trial.
Nice photo but it is hot which you could remedy with HDR or even manually with layers in Photoshop. If you shot in RAW and the hottest areas aren't completely blown out you can probably make the picture better.
If you are looking at spending serious money and have narrowed your choices to two or three cameras, lenses or camera/lens combinations, consider renting each one for a couple of days. It's a little extra expense but Ebay is covered up with equipment that photographers bought based on what an ad or an article said.
Don't sell Walmart short on the print quality issue. I know wedding photographers that have their wedding photos printed at Walmart and Sam's an are very pleased with the results.
Brandy, what is the URL for the site, I'd love to see the picture.
The +1, +2, and +4 diopter attachments are for doing close-ups. They perform the same function as an extension tube or a bellows and can be stacked to get +3, +5, +6, and +7. The advantage
they are easy to carry; disadvantage
they add glass surfaces and degrade the picture by varying degrees.
Noise is like the "snow" we used to see on TV. It shows up worst on flat areas of color. If you will visit this website you will find aq clear explanation of noise, with illustrations and suggestions on how to avoid it and a number of ways to remove it. You will also find a plethora of other photo info.
http://www.cambridgeincolour.com/tutorials/image-averaging-noise.htm