Christian Science Church Corridor 18/52

I was on my way home from Prudential Mall after spending the afternoon at Barnes and Noble reading about photography. In particular, an article in the Digital Photographer magazine talked about how to compose a photo. They outlined 5 categories: Shapes, Angles, Movement, Lines and Space. This photo was taken with 3 exposures so the lights would not be overexposed and meant to demonstrate Lines. A good architectural photo will have columns and lines parallell to the side of the photo. This can be accomplished with the Skew function in Photoshop and will aid in correcting some lens distortion.

Sandy Beaches and Creating a Vignette Effect 17/52

To create a vignette around a photo is pretty simple in Photoshop. This one might be a tad exaggerated. First, you select the Elliptical Marquee tool and draw an oval as big as you want. Next, you don't want what you selected inside the circle, so you need to "Invert" your selection which you can find in the pulldown menu. After that, right-click your oval, and select Feather...and choose about 200 pixels. This will ensure there is a gradient after you darken the corners instead of an abrupt change. Finally, you can go to Image--> Adjustments--> Levels or Curves...to darken the area outside of the oval.