Having Fun with Photoshop!

A couple of months ago, I had just finished photographing an event here in the Bay area and had some extra time to visit a friend in the area. When I walked into their house I immediately noticed that something was wrong. It turns out that Mike had been stung by a bee right on his right eyelid. Ouch! 

His family suggested that, since I had all my camera gear with me, I should take his portrait. I grabbed my Canon R3 with the Canon RF 70-200mm lens and took some photos of Mike against his kitchen wall. After taking the photo, I told him that he looked like he had been in a boxing match. We all had a good laugh and that was that. Well...until I had an idea.

When I got home and downloaded all the images, I saw the images of Mike and thought that it would be fun to put him into a boxing scenario. What better than a "Rocky" poster! I searched the Internet and came across this Rocky III poster at a pretty high resolution. Now it was time to have fun.

I removed Mike's face from the background and resized it to fit over Sylvester Stallone's face. At home I have a Wacom Intuos Tablet which makes it way easier to manipulate the process.

Since this was on a separate layer, I could paint in his face without leaving any obvious lines between his jaw and the original neckline. I got really lucky that the light on Mike's face (coming from a nearby window) matched the direction of the light on Stallone.  

After looking at the photo a little longer, I decided that I needed to enhance the redness of Mike's right eye. I created an adjustment brush, increased the saturation of red and painted that in. After having a good laugh to myself, it was time to share the image with Mike and his family. I texted them the image and they thought it was hysterical.

Since I have the Canon Pro-4100 printer in my office, I had to take the image and print it poster size!

I have a bunch of 24x36 inch frames and saw this as the perfect gift for them. A couple of weeks later I framed it and brought it over to them. Now the big question is, where do they put it in the house? Mike wants it front and center in the house and his wife wants none of that! That makes me laugh even more.

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You can finally purchase Jeff Cable Photography images on my new website!

I have been a professional photographer for almost 20 years, and I have amassed quite a collection of images from all over the world. For so long, people have asked me how they can purchase my photos. and I never had a good answer for them. Honestly, I just did not have the bandwidth to make them available for print. All of that is changing now. I have been working with Art Storefronts to make my photos available to purchase. You can purchase inexpensive novelty items, paper prints ranging from 8x12 to 60x40, metal prints, gallery wraps, acrylics and more.

To launch the new website https://fineart.jeffcable.com/. I am offering 20% off everything. 

I have gone through 20 years of photos and added my favorite images from Africa, Costa Rica, Europe, San Francisco and more. You will find everything from wildlife to cityscape photos. I am really excited about the new site since it is really clean and easy to navigate. 

Currently you will see three categories of images, Wildlife, Nights Around the World, and Travel. 

Within each of these categories is a large collection of my favorite photos.

You can even use the color pallet to the top left to choose images within a certain color range to suit the environment of your choice. 

As you can see, there a lot of options for you. Everything from gift items to museum quality large prints.

I encourage you to enter your email for the fine art site, as I will not be automatically adding you from this blog mailing list to the other. The fine art mailing list will remind you of special offers that you may otherwise miss, even though they will be posted on my social media channels. 

I have tried to keep the prices reasonable to make these affordable gifts for yourself and your friends. 

I hope that you enjoy the new site and find something to compliment your home or business!

- Jeff

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You can now purchase Jeff Cable Photography images from my new fine art site at: https://fineart.jeffcable.com/

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If you are interested in purchasing ANY equipment, please click here to go to B&H Photo, as I get a referral from them if you enter this way. It does not change the cost to you in any way, but it helps me keep this blog up and running.
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Check out my upcoming photo tours to amazing places around the world. I have photo tours to Africa Costa Rica and more. And Canon will loan you any gear you want for FREE for any of my tours. 

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