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The other day I went to my little brother’s birthday party and decided to take some photos durring the party. Practice with live people. And to tell you guys the trut, it was hard. Lighting was a pain. Either I had to use flash and overexpose or not use flash with an high ISO and I’d get like 1/5 shutter speed at best with a lot of…

I know I misspelled Photos. Just thought I’d leave it since I’d show you guys some Tomatoes today. I’m not into a lot of words today, so I’ll just leave the photos. They apples photos was taken in a store near where a live while the tomatoes where taken in a store near my grandmothers…

If you read my previous post about my Christmas Cards you might remember I mentioned I used a technique. So today I thought I’d make a simple tutorial on how I increased the sharpness in a few steps. So here is the picture I used First we start with Duplicate Layer. Then apply the filter High Pass to the new layer by going to…

As Christmas is coming closer and closer for us that celebrates it I thought I’d share some photos I had taken recently at a party over at my aunt’s place. Oh my, she sounds old when you put it like that. But it’s only about 10 years, and they say I’m still young! About our Christmas. We do probably celebrate it like any Christians….

So yesterday I saw this piece of ice that I thought that I’d take a photo of. However, since I was in a rush I didn’t have any time to manually set the focus and the camera ended up focusing on the background. I thought the picture was without hope and rushed down to the tram. But when I checked the picture later the same day I…

Today we’ll speak about the effect Green Light have on coffee. Or nah, who am I kidding? The lamp picture I barely remember shooting, but it says I shoot it 2 days ago. But the coffee I remember, and it was all for free! Big Lamp with Green Light As you can see I even made a logo for this one. I was actually supposed to go to…

A little over 2 and a half month have passed since I came back from Japan. And soon and and a half month since I started the blog. Now it is only about 1 month left until I go back and as times comes closer there is a lot of things that needs doing. I promised I’d read a special book before coming back. I have started it and on my way…

Some of you might remember the Ghost Blur I posted a while back together with a few other Motion Blur Pictures. This picture I had given a vintage feel in Photoshop. Today I thought I’d share with you guys how it was done. So the picture that I used in this guide was a picture from my A Walk in the Snow post that was given. Also will…

Have you guys ever had a picture you really liked the outcome, just to discover you got something on the corner that the picture would have looked better without? I know I have, and today I had that again. I really need to learn to pay more attention to the corners of my photos. Even spoke about that about a month ago, yet I keep making…

Today I thought I’d share some pictures from the best with you guys. Not only does these pictures hold some editing in them, but two of them hold quite a bit of history from my time in Asia. So let me get down to it. Color from Korea Turned out quite well. I actually made a stronger version but mixed it with 70% strong and 30%…