The Escape

For this weeks homework I got to work on two very interesting concepts.  The first is the idea of depth of field inside a photograph.  I really liked this tutorial because it's definitely a skill that will come in handy when I go to edit my future photographs.  I feel like it really adds to the image and it's super simple to use too!

The other homework this week was to really get to know layers and the way they interact with each other by doing the text tutorial on compositing layers.  The best part about this tutorial was learning how you can sink one layer into another.  Thanks to Photoshop's incredible layering power I was able to take a moon and place it into a cloudy sky and have the clouds come up and around the moon.  This was so cool and it's a technique that I am totally going to use a lot more of in the future.

Here are the two images that I created for this weeks homework.  I hope you like them: