Huntington Beach Sunset Self Portrait

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One of my favorite images of me. Taken in Huntington Beach by Thomas Valdez. I was photographing the Huntington Beach Pier during sunset.

Cinemagraph’s By Jason Berry

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With all the hype surrounding Cinemagraphs I had to try one myself. For those of you that don’t know what a Cinemagraph is it’s a couple things. First it’s a movie, then its imported into photoshop and manipulated so that only what you want to move is selected and the rest is masked out. You can find tons of videos on youtube on how to do this. When your just starting out make sure to choose simple scenes with isolated movement. Check out http://cinemagraphs.com/ for more.

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This Cinemagraph was shot with a Canon 7D and 17-40mm Lens. Shot at 24 FPS, and 1080P HD. The video was imported into iMovie and edited down to 3 seconds and then exported at the highest resolution. From there I imported the video into Photoshop CS5 as Layers and I masked out everything except the water. From there I went to File – Save for Web and Devices and saved the file as a GIF. Thats about it. If you have any questions leave a comment below.

Here’s another example
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Jacqueline Hartleben and Friends In Huntington Beach

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I met Jacqueline on main street in Huntington Beach. It was a random occurrence and come to find out Jacqueline was celebrating her birthday. What better way to celebrate a birthday than to be photographed by Jason Berry Photography ;) . So we proceeded to the beach and went wild. I have to say photographing in the dark was a challenge but these girls made the whole experience fun and exciting. Check out the full shoot on my website at www.jasonberryphotography.com or click on the photo below.

Showing You How To Compliment Your Photography With A Simple Design

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Hey Jason Berry here with a simple tip for complimenting your photography with a little bit of design sense and a black and white adjustment layer. So here we have the original file right out of the camera with no adjustments. As you look at the first photo you might think to yourself it looks pretty plain and your right, it is plain. So lets spice this photo up a bit.

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The first thing I did to this image was to see what it looked like in black and white. Usually for my black and white conversions I use the Channel Mixer in Adobe Photoshop and set it to one of the Red Filter settings. This gives me lighter skin tones and smooths out the image a bit. You can do the same thing with the Black and White filter but you have to play around with it a bit more. Next I decided that I wanted to bring back the color of just the sunglasses so I painted with a black brush on the Channel Mixer’s layer mask. With the sunglasses looking pretty cool I decided to go back and retouch the image. Making a background copy I retouched blemishes and removed fly away hairs with a combination of the clone stamp tool and the healing brush tool. With the retouching looking good I went ahead and added some contrast to the image by using a gradient map set to foreground to background. Next I wanted to add a vignette. There are many ways to do this but I find using the gradient tool on a blank layer gives me the most control. With the edges looking burned in I was really liking the image but something was still missing. Thats when I decided to some sort of logo and some text. After reviewing some tutorials on creating simple logos I came up with the squares logo and the text. Notice I used about the same color for the logo as the sunglasses.

A quick tip: to sample a color while using the brush tool just hold alt/option and your curser turns into a color picker.

With that said the last thing I did was sharpen the image and save. Hope you enjoyed this tutorial, make sure to leave your feedback in the comments and let me know how I’m doing. Thanks.