Bethany beach in January

Back to our last vacation of 2014! Our last day of 2014 was well spent. We had too much fun and stayed up too late. The first day of 2015 was also well spent. I took two more trips to the beach throughout the day, both in which I took pictures for you here-

You know when the tide runs high, it leaves a heap of rocks and shells a little farther into the beach? This was that heap of pebbles and whatever may be hiding underneath. It has a nice field of depth, clear in the front and blurry the farther you go out. 

Whaaaat is happening here??? Looks interesting huh? Well here's a trick I recently learned through editing. First, this is a pile of pebbles. Then by editing, I layered the same picture on top, but it's upside down so that it's not layering the same thing. Then, I made the second layer rather transparent, which makes you wondering... Whaaat is going on. It's just something cool I found out.

Check out the beach! So calm...but you can't see the waves washing up on shore. Anyway, this was the view coming out from the boardwalk. 

If you look over the previous picture, this picture was taken right from that. There's really good clarity. You can see the immense detail on the wood, and the background is blurred out. The blurred background emphasizes the wood and you can sort of see the wood glowing. It seems as though there is some white light coming from directly behind the wood. The only thing I would have edited more is to crop out the little wood piece showing on the left, 

It's funny how much people take pictures of objects, but what about shadows? Shadows are the huge thing that people avoid in their pictures as much as possible. For once, we have the thing that follows one anywhere they go. I want to point out one thing when I edited this picture. The app I use allows me to add this effect called a light leak. It allows me to add "fake light" into the picture. In my opinion, they work best on people pictures when there is a lot of light. I decided to try it out here becuase it gives some color to the shadow, rather than the usual black. 

Here is the same picture from my other post but edited differently. I added a different filter and blurred out the top and bottom of the picture. (It blurred out the moon!) This makes you look dead center into the picture. On top of that, it really emphasizes the boardwalk.

Hope you enjoyed these pictures and learned a few cool tricks for editing pictures. Happy 2015!