Thursday, October 22, 2009

The Last Game on a Beautiful Day

Today was beautiful!! It was 72 this afternoon. Now THAT'S what it should be in Oct., so it was really a pleasure. Mace had his last football game this afternoon. His team lost, but the two teams were pretty evenly matched and it was a good game. There were some great plays...

Tonight I spent some time trying to learn a photoshop technique. There are times when I feel totally stupid and this was one of those times. It took me for----ev---er. Mistake after mistake, delete and start over at least 4 times. Sigh. Should I try one more time, or chuck the idea??? Well, I tried one more time, in spite of the headache that was developing, and I got it almost done when it just wouldn't work anymore. That's it!!! I'm done. So, instead of 6 mini-frames in the image, there are only 5. Enough is enough.

I'll try it again another day because I really like the effect. But this is what you get tonight.

Just some random images from the game.

Mace making a tackle.

A good play.

Touchdown!

4 comments:

J.L.Velez said...

Cool technique with the mini frames. It was a really great afternoon for a game, huh?

Anonymous said...

it was a glorious day!

great pictures, even if it did frustrate you, we still enjoy them!

trishalyn said...

LOVE THE MINI-FRAMES!!!

Wow...that is really cool (thanks for persisting with it)!

You're getting to be quite the sports photographer. Glad the weather was so beautiful for you!

ninth sunn said...

great action shots, linda!...and hey great result from your photoshop work. likewise i love the multi frames line drawn you created. very effective. photoshop is very tedious at first but once you've got the hang of it. there's no stopping. you must keep going at it. here's a link to a online free tutorial. you'll get tips & technique from dr brown. he's quite funny too (you'll need to click on the quicktime tutorial to learn your trick).

http://www.russellbrown.com/tips_tech.html

btw, it's for photoshop cs4 though. but it's pretty similar thing. check it out.