The Power of Photoshop...

The human eye sees things differently than a camera lens can see. Our eyes are constantly adjusting to light so that we can see everything in a high dynamic range. When you take a photo, you only see it as it was captured. This is where photoshop comes in.

Photoshop is a very powerful program to have. Knowing the things you can do with photoshop will make you take photographs differently. Take the pictures below for example.

I saw that the sky was a beautiful color. Now I can take a photo of the sky and see it nice and clear, but I have to turn the exposure down on my camera to be able to photograph it properly. The problem is that you then can't see the field. I could take a photo of the field and the players but the sky would be blown out.

So, I know in photoshop you can use layers. I know you can use masks. So I take the photo to capture the sky. You choose this option because you can always pull the color back out of a dark photo, but you can't save a photo that has been blown out. By blown out, I mean that it is too bright and the white levels have washed out the detail.

Before

I took the photo so that the sky would show and the players are dark

After
I used layers with masks and curves to pull out the color from the field and the sky. Leaving me with this beautiful photo! :)