Walkabout photography

I read about something on the Internet which was designed to help develop your photographic eye. The technique was unnamed so I have called it

Walk about photography!

The object of Walk about photography is to develop your photographic eye. You do this by going for a walk and at random intervals stopping. When you stop you then have a take a photograph of something within 15 meters of where you have stopped.

I tried this today with my wife and she told me when to "stop". Take a look at the photos that I took on my adventure.

Cycle lane by Barking Park - this is two pictures put together in Photoshop as you can't get both the post and path in focus at the same time in one shot.

Here is a nice low depth of field shot of a tree trunk with moss on it.

This is a picture of a spike on a fence with it's paint peeling off. I thought this looked like a nice shot and the angle makes it look more dramatic.

Low depth of field shot of a brick wall.

This is a great shot. It's a picture of a pigeon feather that I stuck in the ground.

Pretty flowers

Hope you enjoyed looking at some of the pictures I took on my first walk about photography adventure. I hope you give it a try too.

Photoshop techniques

Well a lot has happened since February. I have now done a 1st Holy Communion and a Christening. I have my 1st Wedding planned for the start of August (very exciting) with a pre-wedding shoot this Saturday.

Well I have been playing with Photoshop and here's some example of what I have been able to do.

This is a simple black and white cropped conversion on a picture. I rotated it 2 degrees clock wise to straighten the frame across the bottom. This picture was taken in a mirror.

This picture was rotated slightly to make the pews straight. I turned it black and white and faded out the edges of the picture.

In this picture I used two layers and a mask to blur most of the photo and keep the features on the girl's face and hair sharp. This was then converted to B&W, I believe it looks better than the colour version.

Following the previous example I used the same technique only I converted to sketch instead of the blur effect. I then used a layer mask to bring out this gent so he doesn't look like a sketch and stands out from the rest of the picture.

Quite excited about the new things I am learning about Photoshop and looking forward to the wedding in a few weeks and creating promotional material for Going Wild Photography. I am also looking forward to creating the Wedding album for my portfolio.

Keep checking back to see how everything goes.