Repeating Shapes
by nowlin

Comment by corrie:
photo is a bit small,

Repeating Shapes
by nowlin

Comment by duffloop:
why so small?

Ore Cart
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Comment by puma:
Wish you could have gotten some of the background out, but this is nice

Mine copy.jpg
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Comment by nowlin:

Originally posted by pekesty: Very colorful photograph, very nice composition. You must of been hanging onto this one for a few weeks, that or still have some color left down there in hills near the Springs.

Right on about the holding. I actually have been learning a bit about creating frames, so I went to some of our materials we shot in September. I really like how they came out--makes the shot look more professional.

Greg

Rylee_cat sm.jpg
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Comment by nowlin:

Originally posted by ArpeggioAngel: Wonderful portrait. Love the hair in her face and the "deer in the headlights" look on the cat.

Thanks for both previous posts. This isn't a challenge shot, so I did what I wanted with it. I used PS to work with the background. The original had too much clutter in the background, so I created a second layer and blurred it out pretty completely. The next step was to select the eraser and take away the part of the blurred layer that I wanted the bottom (clear) layer to show through. I was pleased that the affect actually looked good.

Greg

Mine copy.jpg
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Comment by UNTITLED:
Very colorful photograph, very nice composition. You must of been hanging onto this one for a few weeks, that or still have some color left down there in hills near the Springs.

Rylee_cat sm.jpg
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Comment by Jutilda:
This IS a wonderful portrait. It isn't a really tight crop, but with the girl and the kitty, it works superbly. The overall feel of it is warm and fuzzy, yet it isn't cheesy in the least. I like the DOF and the lighting is very nicely executed.

Rylee_cat sm.jpg
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Comment by ArpeggioAngel:
Wonderful portrait. Love the hair in her face and the "deer in the headlights" look on the cat.

Multi Rylee
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Comment by Jutilda:
COOOOOL!!! Really fun. I've never done anything like that in post editing.

Great complementary colors too.

Rylee: Alex and Tenley
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Comment by nowlin:

Originally posted by Jutilda: Poor Tenley - she's out of focus in both shots. Maybe you could do a pre focus on one of them and then shoot it so that the focus spot is imbetween them.

You are absolutely right on the focus. I debated if I should post these, but am constantly amazed at the eye of my 9-year old. She hasn't mastered the settings yet, but she can certainly find a moment. We aim to have people like you help us in our photography (and you are), so we've decided to post even imperfect shots in hopes to identify some portion of the shot that is good. Keep commenting; it keeps us moving forward. And as far as Rylee is concerned, if she improves a little each year, I can't imagine what she will be able to do as a teenager.