Hi
felicity, how about finding a subject with high dynamic range this week, ie. strong highlights and strong shadows in the same scene and use bracket exposure to make an hdr image... helpfully apparently your model of camera doesnt do an automatic exposure bracketing, so you will need to put your camera on a tripod or other surface and take an underexposed, correctly exposed and over exosed image by your self ! then use the hdr tools in photoshop,
these links may help if you have never done this before https://photoshopcafe.com/tutorials/HDR_ps/hdr-ps.htmhttp://www.dummies.com/photography/digital-photography/types-of-photography/how-to-create-hdr-images-in-photoshop/
if thats all a bit much you can try to find natural framing instead, using something like trees or a doorway or something else to frame your subject with in the picture....
@kali66 Hi Kali, thanks for that, never tried it but that's what Get Pushed is all about - rather daunting but looking forward to it. I might then manage to get a decent shot of the cathedral cloisters! Thanks also for the links, really handy.
Your experience far outweighs mine, have really struggled to find something that you might not have tried. So I'm going to suggest something that would definitely push me, but might be a doddle for you. How would you feel about producing a portrait but using typography and displacement maps in Photoshop? I know these can be extremely time consuming so I'm leaving the complexity up to you. Hopefully you might find it a little different.
If this isn't suitable how would you feel about photographing a water drop crown?
I leave the choice to you.
@fbailey i dont know anything about displacement maps, so i will look that up, and i know the word typology but not how you mean it in portraiture... can you tell me more?
@kali66 I can't work out how to do hyperlinks I'm afraid. If you Google 'YouTube how to create typographic portrait with Photoshop' you should get quite a few video examples. I use PSE 11 and I should be able to produce one using that but have always come unstuck on it. Basically it's getting a portrait and wrapping text around the contours of the face. It's using the Filters - Distort - Displacement tool. Blue Lightning have a YouTube video on How to make a Portrait made only of Text which should help. There are a lot of videos out there ranging in complexity. Some of the examples on the internet are stunning but must have taken a very long time to compile. I would love to be able to do this myself, it's on my To Do list. I hope this helps.
The Gavin Hoey 'Wrap a texture' tutorial is here: http://youtu.be/iHNO4Sgnw5E This may help, I copied it from something @northy produced @kali66 I also searched 365 for displacement maps - Mike Gifford has used them too.
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felicity, how about finding a subject with high dynamic range this week, ie. strong highlights and strong shadows in the same scene and use bracket exposure to make an hdr image... helpfully apparently your model of camera doesnt do an automatic exposure bracketing, so you will need to put your camera on a tripod or other surface and take an underexposed, correctly exposed and over exosed image by your self ! then use the hdr tools in photoshop,
these links may help if you have never done this before https://photoshopcafe.com/tutorials/HDR_ps/hdr-ps.htm http://www.dummies.com/photography/digital-photography/types-of-photography/how-to-create-hdr-images-in-photoshop/
if thats all a bit much you can try to find natural framing instead, using something like trees or a doorway or something else to frame your subject with in the picture....
Your experience far outweighs mine, have really struggled to find something that you might not have tried. So I'm going to suggest something that would definitely push me, but might be a doddle for you. How would you feel about producing a portrait but using typography and displacement maps in Photoshop? I know these can be extremely time consuming so I'm leaving the complexity up to you. Hopefully you might find it a little different.
If this isn't suitable how would you feel about photographing a water drop crown?
I leave the choice to you.