CJ and I were playing with magnifying glasses today. He was using his little magnifying glass on his teddy. Then I was using my big magnifier on him, which had a little magnifier on it! Magnify-ception!
It's so easy to miss dust and dirt when photographing small toys. So sometimes I use a magnifying glass to force myself to check and clean them before photographing. It saves a lot of time on post-production later. 🔎😄
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Additionally, since I'm learning Photoshop, used some new skills. Turns out using a magnifying glass on another magnifying glass has strange effects. The image of the bear inside the small magnifying glass was flipped upside-down...which ruined what I wanted. So I used Transform (& other tools) in PS to flip the image of the bear right-side-up. Yay! 😄
Photography is just so great bc it teaches you about yourself and the world if you're willing to dig deep and we're learning from your experiments To be sure
@jb030958 - Thank you, Jennie! CJ and his teddy says thanks as well. Photoshop has quite the learning curve but I'm trying my best. There's a Youtube channel called PHLearn that has a 30 Days of Photoshop series. It's very helpful!
@domenicododaro - Thanks Domenico! It was a fun challenge flipping science on it's head in PS. :P
@dustyloup - That's such a good point! Reflections, refractions, light, angles. You learn a lot about the world, even science, through photography. Glad my experiments have been insightful, thanks!! :)
@monicac - Thanks Monica!! You do a great job with your program! I use basic editing most of the time too but sometimes, with a challenge like this, I needed something more. Photoshop is a powerful program with quite the learning curve. There's a Youtube channel called PHLearn that has a nice 30 Days of Photoshop series that has been helpful to me.
@koalagardens - Kinda a rare thing for us. Seeing all the black and white shots this month kinda inspired us! Thanks!!!
Good for you! I would probably have made a composite of the right-side up shot and over-layed it on the upside-down part! But then, I don't have photo shop. I think one of my other programs can do that though- but I'm lazy to figure it out! Fun shot- and great lesson for you.
@olivetreeann - Thanks Ann! Oh, good idea! That's another good way to do it! Wow, amazing how there's so many different ways to do something in PS or other programs.
@kjarn - It was so much fun, even with the unexpected results! Thanks for the comment, Kathy.
@wendyfrost - Thanks!! Haha, poor Ted would probably have a big headache afterward.
Nice crisp focus through the three lenses you used
CJ's little teddy is cute 🐻
@gggg - Haha quite the compliment for the bear! He makes a really good "toy subject" for CJ.
@sunnygirl - So happy to give you a laugh, Mallory! Thanks!!
@merrelyn - Very kind of you, Merrelyn. Thanks!
@jb030958 - Thank you, Jennie! CJ and his teddy says thanks as well. Photoshop has quite the learning curve but I'm trying my best. There's a Youtube channel called PHLearn that has a 30 Days of Photoshop series. It's very helpful!
@dustyloup - That's such a good point! Reflections, refractions, light, angles. You learn a lot about the world, even science, through photography. Glad my experiments have been insightful, thanks!! :)
@monicac - Thanks Monica!! You do a great job with your program! I use basic editing most of the time too but sometimes, with a challenge like this, I needed something more. Photoshop is a powerful program with quite the learning curve. There's a Youtube channel called PHLearn that has a nice 30 Days of Photoshop series that has been helpful to me.
@koalagardens - Kinda a rare thing for us. Seeing all the black and white shots this month kinda inspired us! Thanks!!!
@kjarn - It was so much fun, even with the unexpected results! Thanks for the comment, Kathy.
@wendyfrost - Thanks!! Haha, poor Ted would probably have a big headache afterward.
@bkbinthecity - Thank you, glad you enjoyed it! :)