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Amazing Pictures by Michael Taggart Photography

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This is my first tutorial ever – so give me feedback on how you like it – but be gentle!  🙂

I’m going to go over the design steps that take the good picture on the left and make it into something a bit more vivid on the right.  Hopefully some of the thoughts and steps will inspire you to make your pictures even more amazing!

Find your Focus

The first thing I do when I look at a picture is figure out what the focus is going to be. What part of the picture is going to be the star?
In this case I was attracted to the way the sunlight was interacting with the little ‘hairs’ on the grass.
When I zoomed in they looked like little stars.

You always want to show off contrast – and the best way to do that is to look at edges. …

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