Afternoon Sun on a Houseplant

Feeling inspired, yet stuck in the house I pushed my kitchen table over into the bright stream of sun coming in the back door and looked at the houseplant that sits on the table.

It was an experiment in closeness, seeing how close I could get with my 18-55mm kit lens. As well as giving me some photos I didn't really care about to Photoshop. I have this hangup about photos I really like and I'm afraid I'll "ruin" them with Photoshop. I know, I know, I always save the original, but I'm more hesitant to slide the "quick fix" bars around when I already kind of like it. But here, I bumped the saturation quite a bit to make the leaves a brighter green and I did something to try and make the background a little darker (can't remember what though). I couldn't find, however, the "duster" tool that would brush the dust that has collected on the leaves. Oh yeah, that is in the actual closet and would require some cleaning effort.

Color

I just love the color in this photo. My family and I visited a very small town right on the border between Maryland and West Virginia. This church had this really cool castle-looking steeple. (I guess I would call it a steeple) The church itself was a plain, white building, but with this bright red structure above it. And of course, the sky was a brilliant fall blue.


And working on one of my photo goals for this year, I'm including a photo of myself, in my new favorite color.

I found a great idea in someone's Flickr, to create a set of photos with great color. (I'm sorry I can't remember who, it has been a long time). So here is a link to my own Color set.

Stacy at The Land of K.A. is hosting Theme Thursdays, please click over and see more interpretations of color.

Chianti

I played with the saturation and temperature in Photoshop.

Pumpkins and Poised

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Yellow to Orange

I just discovered in Photoshop that in the "Quick Fix" section of buttons, I can play with the hue and temperature and saturation. I took a kind of blah picture of a yellow flower and and brightened it up into orange. I like how the green in the background came out too. I'm trying to change things up a bit from my usual yellow-flower-in-the-middle-of-the-frame shots.

Original:

Bumpy Pumpkin