Photoshop CC assignment: take a series of photos outdoors using the manual (M) mode on the camera ( in my case a
Nikon D5100 with a 35.0 mm f / 1.8 lens). Shoot the images in RAW (image quality RAW), and not JPG.
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| Yellow Rose, 1 / 1600 sec f / 2.8 (cropped) Aperature Priority |
Ok, I got the effect I wanted: focus on foreground rose and blurred background. Next I tried to extend the depth of view to get the foreground and background into focus. It took two shots for a hand-held photo.
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Yellow Rose, 1 / 50 sec f / 16 (cropped), Manual
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Yellow Rose, 1 / 50 sec f / 16 (cropped), Manual
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Note: In the bottom two photos, I first focused on the far flowers and then, in the second photo, I focused on the large flower. Radial filters were used to darken the background and emphasize the large yellow rose in both shots.
These photos were processed in Lightroom (not part of the Photoshop CC course), so I need to modify the workflow to use the Adobe Bridge application and Camera Raw. You can compare these photos with others I took at the same time for posting on my Wordpress blog: Carto’s Logbook,
Ephemeral — Blossoms, Tra la, Tra la.
Carto
