Oct 15 2011
At the Grocery Store
Well it’s end of the week and I am finally getting over being sick. I am not really sure if I was sick, but I did have a migraine for the last three days so I spent most of my time sleeping and watching TV in the dark. Sadly, I exhausted so I couldn’t get much work done on the computer or even think about taking pictures when I had to leave the house.
On Friday I went to the doctor even though I was feeling better. It was time for my yearly check up and he could tell me if I was sick or if it was just bad migraine. Of course, the doctor had no answers.
After the Doctor’s Appointment
After the appointment, I decided to go the grocery store and get some much needed groceries for the weekend. While shopping, I stopped by the beer and wine section. This store has a great selection of imports and micro brews that I almost always find something else to try. But even when I’m not looking for something extra for the weekend, I love going through the department just to check out what they have and look at the labels, there are so many great labels and advertisements to catch the shopper’s eye.
I Actually Remembered to Bring my Camera In the Store!
While in the store, I took some quick pictures with the Canon PowerShot SD960 IS and edited them in Adobe Lightroom 3 and Photoshop CS4. 
With this image, I edited in Adobe Lightroom 3 and did some more processing to boost the colors of the labels. 
In this image, I cleaned up the image in Lightroom, and finished up the processing with Photoshop by adding a vignette and boosting the reds and blues to create vintage look to the image.
And finally with this image, I followed the same process with the first image. I processed with Lightroom and used Photoshop to boost the colors to give the labels more of a pop.
James
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Oct 17, 2011 @ 19:06:06
Fab photos and some nice work tweaking the colours on the labels, makes me want to get a bit drunk on all that nice booze but it’s Monday night, got work tomorrow and I don’t feel that well myself!
Anyway keep up the good work and hope you star feeling well again soon.
Cheers
Warren
(UK)
Nov 08, 2011 @ 21:24:23
Great pictures James. I wish I had a smaller camera I could take into stores like this. I just have a D80 and that’s pretty big to pull out in a picturesque aisle for some photos. Love these.
Dec 02, 2011 @ 08:13:43
Hi Brian, having the smaller camera is always great for these quick shots that you come across. So easy to hide and pull for a quick photo and put it away before anyone sees it.
Dec 02, 2011 @ 07:55:05
Wow James, these are really cool. I love taking the normal and mundane and making it beautiful. Well done!
Dec 02, 2011 @ 08:15:51
Thanks Adam! When I walked through the beer department, I could see what these images would look like. They actually turned out better than I thought they would.