B is for...

Today I decided to capture something blue.  This is a garden ornament in my mother's garden - a iron/steel and glass butterfly.  I pointed up towards the sky, hence the background.  It's not the most creative picture, but that wasn't particularly my focus today - just to take a photo of something that was blue.  I auto adjusted the colour and contrast, and that was all for editing.

This is the same photo as above, only I decided to play around with it.  I added, in Photoshop Elements, what I think was called "glow edging" (I could be wrong with the name though), and thought it might look cool.  I like the way it turned out.

Three Leaves

A simple photo of three leaves which I took at a recent photo shoot at a local park.

Trees

A simple photo of a small grove of trees.  I took this in the park near my home, part of the collection of photos I took that day.  Mostly what I was going here for was the lines - the vertical lines caused by the tree trunks.  Again, it's not amazing or anything like that; but I like how the photo depicts the end of the fall season.

Bit o' Bokeh

These aren't great photos, I'll be the first to admit it.  But, they are from my first attempt at trying to do bokeh.  I definitely need to find my old tripod and make a better setup, but out of the several photos I shot in this session, these are probably the better two. 

I have three coloured bottles - blue, red, and yellow - and I tried shots using the different ones.  I was only satisfied with these two of the red bottle.  Mind you, I'm not completely satisfied with these shots, but like I said before, they are the better ones from what I took.  I also used some Christmas lights to try to get the bokeh effect.  In some shots, the lights had the effect a little bit, but the rest of the light was too visible.  I might try this when it's dark instead of having some light shining through the blinds. 

I've done some reading on this topic (bokeh), and it said it was pretty easy to do this type of photography, but at the same time, it takes a lot of practice to "perfect" it.  I'll keep trying though, because some of the photos of bokeh I've seen are amazing.

Birch

I had taken a photo of this without a flash and it turned out dark, so I turned the flash on and got this image.  I auto edited the colours, brightness, contrast, etc., and I'm sure it could be fixed up much better.  It doesn't help that there is a big white cloud in the background - I wish it had been broken up by blue sky somewhat.  Anyway, I took this yesterday when I went to the park near my house for a little photo shoot.

Leaf x 2

I went out to another local park today, this one closer to my home (practically in my backyard).  I wanted to see if there were still some nice fall photos to be taken.  Sadly, most of the leaves have fallen now, but I did get some nice shots.

The above shot was taken using the macro mode of my camera, using my 18-55mm lens.  I've auto adjusted the colour and contrast a bit in this photo.  The one below is the same shot, only I converted it to black and white and adjusted the RGB levels some.

B & W Bark

Ganted, this might not be the best or most interesting photo, but I was playing around with the maco setting on my camera and wanted to try to capture the texture of the tree bark.  I converted the photo from colour to b&w and adjusted the RGB levels some.