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October, 2009 Archives

the apple basket

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October 23rd, 2009 Permalink

These are from a few weeks ago – just now getting around to posting here on the blog. This was a good day: nice light, happy baby.

San Diego Baby | Apple Basket

NikonD700/50mm 1.4 | 1/250s | f4.5 | ISO200

San Diego Baby Photographer | Baby in Apple Basket

NikonD700/50mm 1.4 | 1/250s | f4.5 | ISO200

san diego baby

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October 7th, 2009 Permalink

We had a great time taking these pictures a short while ago. With so much nice, soft light coming through the window, it made capturing sweet expressions much easier.

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NikonD700/50mm 1.4 | 1/500s | f3.2 | ISO640

san diego baby photographer

NikonD700/50mm 1.4 | 1/500s | f3.2 | ISO640

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NikonD700/50mm 1.4 | 1/200s | f3.2 | ISO640

Photoshop Blending Modes

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October 4th, 2009 Permalink

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Here’s a neat Photoshop trick I picked up from watching a Marcus Bell tutorial at Adobe TV. By combining a hefty gaussian blur with Photoshop’s blending modes, you can give your images a nice dreamy feel, which worked out really nicely for a few images we took at our friends’ Johnny and Megan’s wedding. Here’s how:

  1. Open your image and duplicate the layer (Go to Layer > Duplicate Layer).
  2. With your top layer selected, go to Filter > Blur > Gaussian Blur. In the example below, I used a radius of 6px because I’m not working with a full resolution file. Select a value high enough to blur out most details in the image.
  3. Now, select Edit > Fade Gaussian Blur.
  4. In the little popup window, adjust the blending mode to Soft Light. From here you can adjust the strength of the effect by moving the opacity slider down. The example below has an opacity of 50%.

That’s it! It’s a pretty easy way to apply a slightly hazy effect to any image.

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NikonD700/50mm 1.4 | 1/80s | f4 | ISO3200

What do you think? If you’ve used this technique, let us know how it worked out for you by posting a comment below.