I have decided to do the Dogwood 52 week photo challenge , which gives you a new photo assignment each week alternating between a portrait, landscape, and artistic photo types. The goal of the challenge is to increase your creativity and improve your photos in each of the three areas. I will be blogging each weeks assignment, which will show the original out of camera and the final edited image. I will also note which setting I used and some of the edits I made. This is week one which was to take a self-portrait. For these images, I set up a gray backdrop (very wrinkly) behind my couch, placed a 18-55mm lens on my camera with a beauty dish on a 450EX II Speedlight on camera. I used my cell phone as a remote trigger. The settings on the camera were ISO 200, at F4.0, with a 1/15s shutter at a focal length of 18mm. The first image I cropped the image to focus on my face. I then adjusted the lighting to brighten my face, then adjusted the ...
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