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Photoshop #1 - Fake Tilt Shift Attempts

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My first attempt at taking photos from my own collection and applying fake tilt shift techniques to them in Photoshop CS2 can now be seen in my gallery. This is definitely a fairly decent technique to make your photos look like they were taken with an expensive Tilt Shift Lens. For those interested, I followed the technique posted in this tutorial and hopefully I'll be able to hone my Photoshop skills with future attempts.

Infrared Photography

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Well it's been a while since posting anything photography related on my blogs (it's been a long cold winter ok!) but this week with the arrival of my new Hoya Infrared filter (R72 52mm for those interested) I have been inspired back in to taking photos in the great outdoors of Massachusetts. Well so far only the great outdoors of the town of Maynard, once it warms up a little more I will venture out further again. Check out my flickr infrared gallery for my pics taken with the Filter on my Pentax *ist DL DSLR. Taken with manual focus pretty much set to infinity, ISO 200 and auto white balance, I believe I should play with the white balance to get even better shots and for sure use a Tripod, all pics in this slide show are hand held and as you may know the DL has no image stabilization. A good excuse to consider a upgrade to K10D or K200D perhaps? Next I will try landscapes with a tripod, converting to B&W definitely gives these images an eerie feel.