by Dawn Camp | Oct 29, 2012 | Before & After Shots, Lightroom, photography
Food photography can be fun. Sometimes I shoot food for recipe posts, but today’s photo was serendipitous, the result of a quirky arrangement of onions that I’d just chopped. I didn’t pose them, but found their form and symmetry visually appealing....
by Dawn Camp | Oct 28, 2012 | Before & After Shots, photography
Today’s before and after photo shows how to crop to get the image you want. Two years ago I entered a photo contest held by Solo Cups. My dad suggested I include our dog in a photo, so I made party hats for Muffin and one of my daughters who particularly dotes...
by Dawn Camp | Oct 27, 2012 | Before & After Shots, photography
Each month I create a downloadable desktop wallpaper for the readers of (in)courage. For the November 2011 calendar I added a texture overlay to my photo in Photoshop. Although I’ve never used it, a friend told me that you can create a layered image in Photoshop...
by Dawn Camp | Oct 26, 2012 | Before & After Shots, photography
As technology continues to improve I’m more likely to leave my Nikon at home and rely on the camera that’s always with me: my iPhone 4. Not only does it take surprisingly good photos, the editing programs are just plain fun. In honor of my usual Camera...
by Dawn Camp | Oct 25, 2012 | Before & After Shots, Lightroom, photography
This photo also comes from our 25th anniversary trip to Cades Cove in Tennessee (see other photo on Day 18). I like to photograph old things, like the broken wagon wheel embedded in the ground and want the photo to look aged, like the subject itself. I don’t...
by Dawn Camp | Oct 24, 2012 | Before & After Shots, Lightroom, photography
Sometime you open an image and it looks horrible—maybe your bad white balance is off or you composed it poorly—yet there’s something you like about it, enough to try to salvage the photo. That’s how I felt about this image from January of ’09. If I...
