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Linda Phelps

Maria Korab-Laskowska
Tom Icklan
Mark Greenberg
Eduardo Atienzar Martinez
Kieu-Hanh Vu
Linda Phelps
Debra Thompson
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January

Title: Introducing Jude

How I did it: This little guy is the new baby in our family. The portrait was taken a few days ago at the age of 6 weeks. He is a very intelligent British Labrador puppy. The British Lads have webbed feet for swimming where the Americans do not. He has been potty trained in to two days! After doing the levels adjustment in PS5 I opened this image in Topaz Labs Adjustment 5. I increased the saturation just a bit to bring out the Fox red in his coat. Then I used the vignette in this program to make a frame for the portrait which I touched up a little in PS5. A very simple editing process so you can get a good look at our new puppy. Today is his fourth day at home with us..

Maria Korab-Laskowska

Welcome Judy. I expect we will see you often, you little, cutie! Nice portrait, great expression. I like colors and how you choose set the background line in the frame. Did you use strait flash or with diffuser? It is difficult to avoid shadow when background is so close but I would experiment with reflecting flash from ceiling or off camera flash.  
Tom Icklan There is an old saying ... "cute sells" and in this case your brand new member of the family will sell joy and smiles to anyone who looks at this photo. Too bad you were forced to use direct flash. Sometimes this can be modified with diffusion or careful post work with the rubber stamp. I enjoyed meeting Jude. 
Mark Greenberg Welcome to Jude!! I like that you shot from Jude's level and have good focus on the eyes with a catch light. Various shades of brown make it almost monochromatic. There seems to be a little soft focus. Have fun. 
Eduardo Atienzar Martinez
Kieu-Hanh Vu  
Linda Phelps (postcomment space)
Debra Thompson Well, you can't go wrong with a subject like that. He's adorable! Well done for getting him to sit still long enough to get his portrait taken (I know my dog as soon as I get down to ground level to get a good angle just wants to come over and lick me!). I think the colours you have brought out in his coat look great. I would have liked to see him against a different background colour with more contrast.  

Linda Phelps
biography

linda

In my 30's I had catastrophic experience by coming down with Fibromyalgia.This was long before the research got started. Once I got some meds that helped cut down the intense pain I started getting interested with photography in 1999.We bought my first digital camera, an Olympus. Photography gave me the desire to push myself until I got lot stronger. I am now using a Canon 10D with canon L glass. I like competitions and have won prizes and acceptances in Salon competition.I have sold some my work in an art gallery. My photos have been published in photo books, photo magazines and the newspaper. Photography has become a passion with me! I love to learn new ways to improve my images. I belong to few groups to help me do that. Now I have the opportunity to learn more with PSA! My gallery : pbase.com

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