Photo Challenge – Day 2

Posted by: Sean | Posted on: June 2nd, 2010 | 0 Comments

Yesterday (Tuesday) I went hiking up the Mountain Sliabh Gullion with a few of my friends, I intend on making a bigger blog post on this tomorrow so I will not go into too much detail about it now ;). Anyway I thought that going on this hike would be a great advantage for my photo challenge, I knew that I could get some great pictures up there! So most likely the next two or three pictures in this challenge will be from this hike, I just took so many pictures, it would be a shame not to use them! Today's picture is of a compass, at the Summit of Sliabh Gullion, there was a flat area where you place a compass, then leading from the centre of the compass it showed different areas that you can go to, so basically a map! I was going to add a photoshopped version of this picture to this blog post, but after trying different edits and filters, I found that the best was the original picture! So for that reason, today's Photo Challenge will just contain the original photo :). You can click on the image to see a larger version of the picture!

Photo Challenge – Day 1

Posted by: Sean | Posted on: June 1st, 2010 | 0 Comments

So today is the beginning of the challenge that I have set myself which is to take a picture every day for the month of June. Today's photo is a picture that I took a while ago, recently we had a lot of hot weather so I took advantage of it and took out my camera to see what I could do with it since I didn't have a proper chance to get to use it beforehand. Today's picture is some flowers on a tree called a Laburnum Tree, it is in my opinion a really nice tree, the yellow colours in it are really powerful and stand out a lot. I also started out the other part of my challenge which is to edit the original photo with Photoshop, I think it worked out really well, so below is the two photos, the first pictures is the original photo I took and the second is my altered image. For the altered image in Photoshop I just applied some filters that are available as standard in Photoshop, a basic edit, but one I think worked out really well. For larger versions of each photo, you can just click on the photo.

Challenge begins tomorrow

Posted by: Sean | Posted on: May 31st, 2010 | 0 Comments

I spent some time today looking at various fonts and brushes for Photoshop and now I have a small collection of new tools that I can try out in Photoshop. As my title suggests, my photo challenge begins tomorrow, I am not sure how it is going to work out. I have no idea what I will be taking pictures of, except for tomorrows one, I already have that one done ;). I have been thinking of what else I could get out of this challenge, simply pointing the camera at a random image will not suffice I don't think, it's a challenge, it should have a more bigger element of challenge! I have decided to incorporate the Photoshop element into my challenge, I am going to take my photos, then I am going to open up Photoshop and try some new techniques out, bear in mind now, I am no photographer and I am certainly no expert in Photoshop in any way! Next month has thirty days, that means every day I must have a new picture! That is going to be a lot of pictures. I hope that by the end of next month (June) I will have improved my skills in the areas of photography and image design. So why did I want to make a challenge for myself? There are a number of reasons for it, the first is now that I am blogging regularly I want to ensure I keep at it, and by creating this challenge it will keep me motivated, hopefully ;)! The next reason is, shortly after my birthday this year, I invested in a reasonably good camera, and as of yet I have not really used it. So again this challenge will make me use it more! And the final reason is because I think it is about time I learned more about Photoshop, I am off college for the summer, so I might as well make the most of it! Now I hope to continue with my regular blog posts each day also, this might be too much work, but I will see how it goes :). I think that the daily photos will have their own separate blog post, meaning I will show the original photo that I took, maybe say what it is and where I took it and then I will show the altered image which is my Photoshop version and what I done to it and how I did it. Anyway, it all kicks off tomorrow and it is looking like it will be an interesting challenge!