Life Beckons

Sometimes the need to shoot takes over,and you find yourself to busy to get out or go on an adventure.Id love to shoot abandoned places everyday or see some recycled art goodness and roadside attraction.So was a bit busy with everything coming home one day from work and seen the leaves on the ground and the color and crispiness grabbed my d3200 attached the 50mm and took a few shots I photographed the leaves for abit and uploaded to my pc and added some vsco presets took them into Silver efex back to lightroom and sent a few to alien skin and was pleased with the result of layering the leafs trying to shoot these 3-4 leafs in a different ways.It really makes you think about your shots when trying to create something almost artistic in a sense.Almost abstract tho seeing the color version the black and white turns these shots into something totally different as youll see in the next post of the color versions. 

Mountain flowers

In my journey into photography ive seen on many artist pages the use of textures and overlays and have been intrigued. Ive only recently started to incorporate these extras into my photography.Using "Alien skin exposure software"ive found it very easy to use  textures overlays and dust particles.Note not every image is a candidate for these techniques but its fun to see which will work,on this image I started off with my normal adjustments in lightroom using the adjustment brush to decrease shadows and increase highlights.

   Once I was finished with my normal editing I imported the image to alien skin exposure and sharpened the image then added light leaks and then my scratches to give it the look you see before you. 

Crow

Crow

shot raw edited with Alien Skin software using paper texture and a two tone overlay with added vignetting