Setting Sun

Hey guys. Its been a long while since my first posts and earlier I told everyone I'd be updating at least once a week (which didn't happen last week) but today, I have a few photos to share. This past weekend I had the chance to capture a nice sun set and although I'm not the best at landscape photography, I want to show what can be done with a little digital processing. This is the original photo.

This first attempt I bumped up the exposure slightly and raised both the clarity and the vibrancy to make the colors pop and make the image nice and sharp.

This next one I turned the exposure and contrast down very lightly and brought the clarity nearly all the way down while increasing the shadows to get this slightly brighter but dull image.

 The last shot is actually a different shot and not an edit of the last 3. I decided to play with the hue and touched up the color.

Like I said, I'm not the best landscape photographer. I want to show that there are many different ways of editing a photo to get any sort of affect you want. If you found this interesting and want to see more stuff like this, leave it in the comments. If you have any sort of suggestions too, I'll be happy to take them. Just leave a comment :)

Update 6/17/13

Hello all,

I never knew maintaining a blog could be so difficult. Not in the sense that I don't know what I'm doing but the fact that I should be pumping content into my blog and be writing more posts. Well, frankly I haven't had much time lately and photography is going slowly although I'm sure you're tired of only seeing AnimeNext photos. However, I will try to put in one "good" post with photography a week and you can expect something new by the middle of the week, so there's that. In the next coming weeks I will be traveling to the Dominican Republic for my family's summer vacation so for that week there will be no posts but do expect some nice photography from there when I return.

AnimeNext Photos - 5

Finally at the last group of photos. I hope everyone got a chance to check out all of my photos from AnimeNext.

Sinon (Sword Art Online)

Tsuna (Reborn!)

Squall (Final Fantasy)

Black Gold Saw (Black Rock Shooter)

Taiwan (Hetalia)

Hope you all enjoyed my photography. I also hope you don't think this is all my blog is about (cosplay photos that is). Eventually I will be putting up more work from all different types of events in many new places. Leave a comment :)

AnimeNext Photos - 4

Part 4 of AnimeNext Photos.

Shinkgeki no Kyojin themed!! (aka Attack on Titan)
I apologize first only because I don't actually know if this next cosplayer was meant to be a character or just his own self in the costume from this anime (things like this often happen...).

Mikasa Ackerman

and Mikasa Ackerman

Next up is Lenalee from D Grey Man.

Last in this series is from the series Magi: The Labyrinth of Magic. Masrur

Next post is the last in the AnimeNext series. Leave comments below :)

AnimeNext Photos - 3

Part 3 of the AnimeNext photos.

Kagura and Kamui (Gintama)

Kaito (Vocaloid)

These next photos are all from Naruto. Kisame and two Madara Uchiha's (o_o')

Half way through my AnimeNext photos. Leave a comment :)

AnimeNext Photos - 2

Here is the second set in my AnimeNext Photo series.

Ada Wong (Resident Evil series)

Ciel Phantomhive (Black Butler)

These next photos are all from the series Pandora Hearts. Echo, Gil and Break.

Echo

Gil

Break

This is all for now but there is still more in the next post. Leave a comment :)