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Traveling Photographer by Lori Friederich

New Orleans
New Orleans ia a beautiful and ispirational city, with its daytime jazz and nighttime reverly everything that you capture is just amazing. But there's no better time to capture the energy of this city is during the Carnival season. Here are tips to capture it all:

1. French Quarter. You'll see walking parades of tourist and locals wearing costumes and masks. Everything is characterized by cobbled streets, bright stucco walls and wrought-iron balconies.
2. Jasckon Square. St. Louis Cathedral is the most important element, white exterior with jazz street musicians in the park it's a perfect combination.
3. The parades. They take place in Downtown, Canal Street: great place for brightly lit nighttime parades.
4. Cities of the Dead. So named for their above-ground vaults, New Orleans' cemeteries offer a break from the crowds and tourists. Interesting fact: you may catch believers at voodoo queen Marie Laveau's tomb.

TILT Swift - How to make cool, convincing faux-miniatures

Some photographers use a tilt/swift lens to accomplish the look of their picture for picture populated by "tiny toys". It's simple to get this effect in Photoshop. This technique works better on subject that are already in small frame.

1. Start by going to Layer>Duplicate Layer>New Adjustment. Choose your contrast from the pulldown menu to make your own adjustment. Change your Curves adjustment.
2. Toy set are usually painted in bright colors so add some saturation. Layer>New Adjustmen t Layer>Hue/Saturation and add about 30 points.
3. Decide the area to keep on focus in your picture. Select your Background Copy Layer, and then type B on your keyboard to get the Brush Tool. You'll paint on your picture the area that you want to keep on focus.Set your brush's hardness to 0.
4. Hit Q on your keyboard to enter the Quick Mask mode. Set your foreground color to black, hold down the Shift key, and paint a straight line over the area you want to remain focus. When you like your line, type Q again to exit Quick Mask mode.
5. Now it's time to blur the image. Go to Filter>Blur>Lens Blur.
6. Once your in the Filter dialogue make sure that the Source:None is selected under Depth Map. Mess around with the rest of the slider, it determines just how much blur you add. Then click OK to see your finished image, complete with the effect of your Adjustment Layers.