September 13 - 256/365

50mm lens, f/3.5, 1/20, ISO 800

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May 30 - 150/365

28-135mm lens @ 30mm, f/3.5, 1/640sec, ISO 200

The bright red veins on the leaves of this tree caught my eye and I was doing my best to capture the contrasting colors of the red with the blue sky. Getting the color to pop was a bit more difficult than I had anticipated, but a little bit of digital editing afterwards helped a bit. I upped the saturation, adjusted the cyan/blue levels a bit, and added a color overlay layer. Still not quite what I had envisioned in my head, but I like that it is something a bit different than what I usually take. 

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April 20 - 110/365

28 - 135mm lens @ 122mm, f/8, 1/10, ISO 400

Another flower photo, but I couldn't help myself. These beautiful little bluebells called to be photographed. I added a soft focus effect and a burgundy color layer to enhance the blue color, as well as lightened the photo. I love the ethereal feel in the end result.

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April 15 - 105/365

28-135mm lens @ 50mm, f/7.1, 1/100, ISO 200

So at least I took a photograph of something other than a flower today, although this wasn't the shot that I had envisioned taking. Today is Tax Day in the US, so I had this grand idea of taking a photo of the post office with a huge line of people, all anxious to get their taxes postmarked before the end of the day. I drove by the post office, but there was no line. And there were too many cars because of an accident. And the people were.... boring. And uninspiring. Bummer. So I figured I would take a shot of the mailboxes that also probably saw a LOT of action today.

I also tried some new color layering effects on this image described on iffles, using additional dark red and black layers. I'm not sure what I initially knew what these layers would do to my photo, but I love the end result. It makes the blue of the mailbox pop so much more than just sliding the saturation bar. Definitely something I will be playing around with more in the future.

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