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>> Thursday, December 2, 2010
Showing posts with label Before/After. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Before/After. Show all posts
Before & After
>> Thursday, November 18, 2010
See what I mean? That giant pump thing in the background was a HUGE distraction. But for those of you who photograph children often, you know that when you are dealing with a feisty, excited and rambunctious two year old, that you have to shoot where you can and hope for the best. Fortunately for me, I was able to clone out that hideous background and replace it with something much more acceptable.
Hope you guys have a great Thursday!!
An uh-oh from the Pumpkin Patch
>> Tuesday, October 19, 2010
I knew right when I saw this photo that if I could manage to fix it, that it would be my Before & After/Touch Up Tuesday for this week! I took Little Man to the Pumpkin patch last week to pick out a pumpkin to carve {which, we have still yet to do} and to take some more birthday pictures. When I got there, he jumped out of the car immediately and started doing all sorts of cute things. I started snapping photos right away and failed to double check my White Balance. When I stopped and looked at the first 5 shots I had taken, I realized that my WB was set to Tungsten Light instead of Auto or Daylight. So this was what I got:
BUT…I managed to save it. First I adjusted the layers to brighten it a bit. Then I ran The Pioneer Woman’s “Warmer” action 3 times. I then ran Pioneer Woman’s “Boost” action to brighten the colors. After that I bumped up the contrast and the brightness a tiny bit, ran PW “Define & Sharpen,” the Warming Action again and erased it from his eyes. I wanted to warm up everything around him, but I like to keep as much blue in his eyes as possible. The warming actions were pulling out more hazel. Because I had boosted up the colors and fixed the levels so much, there was a lot of noise in the green bushes behind Little Man. To fix this, I went in and ran the “Reduce Color Noise” filter in PSE 8. And voila! This is what I got:
Another exciting salvage for me! I love fixing my “whoops” photos! It’s so much fun taking something that should technically be considered ruined and turning it into something useable and beautiful!
This week, Faith over at Simplicity’s theme is Straight out of Camera. I don’t generally enjoy sharing SOOC shots because I really don’t enjoy people critiquing my imperfect skills when it comes to shooting in manual because I like to spruce my photos up…brighten the color, up the contrast…BUT since that’s the theme this week, I’ll share one {can you tell I’m grumbling?}
Happy Tuesday, everyone!
Read more...Another Birthday Portrait Preview
>> Thursday, October 14, 2010
I’m still way behind on my editing…but I wanted to share another sweet birthday picture preview with you guys today for Before & After! The SOOC shot was really blown out and over-exposed. The sun was freakishly bright on this particular afternoon and Little Man was running around way too much for me to accurately keep my settings in check. Thank goodness for Editing Software…I was able to salvage this one.
I ran a few actions on this one to get the color like I wanted it: First, Pioneer Woman’s Boost action, followed by Coffee Shops Perfect Portrait. I lowered the opacity on the Vignette when I ran perfect portrait. I then ran a Warming Filter and lowered that opacity to 25%. I wanted to add some color to his face, but not so much that he looked orange. Then I lowered the brightness and the contrast a bit until I got the look that I was going for-enough brightness to not distort the coloring, but not so much that he looked totally washed out. And last, I ran Pioneer Woman’s Define & Sharpen. And voila!
Make sure you head over to Monica’s to link your own Before & After photos and to check out some other absolutely amazing photographers and their work! Happy Thursday!
Tuesday, Tuesday, Tuesday
>> Tuesday, October 12, 2010
I’m back, folks. I feel like I have been gone forever because I haven’t A) Posted a lot in the past week; and B) Visited/Commented on your posts this past week. But today, I am here. Be excited. :-) And with me I’ve brought a few photos…
Before & After
>> Wednesday, October 6, 2010
I took Little Man to the park out by my parents house this weekend and started attempting to get some of his two year portraits. The leaves were falling, the weather was cool and I managed to snag a few beautiful candids! I’m really excited with how they turned out. I haven’t made it very far into my editing yet, but this is one of my favorites so far:
The warmth from the sunlight really made this photo seem like fall to me. Not sure why, but I loved the brightness, the warm colors and the sunshine so much. This is one of my absolute favorite photos of Little Man to date. The excitement that he is obviously feeling just makes me smile. I shot this using a Canon Rebel Xsi and a 50 mm lens. I edited in Photoshop Elements 8. Next week I promise I’ll write down the steps to how I edit so you guys can try it on your photos. :-) Head over to Monica’s for more before and after shots!
Before & After
>> Wednesday, September 22, 2010
I had a nice fun before and after photo of Candy Corn that I was going to post today in honor of the beginning of Fall. Then I started working on some of my waaaay behind schedule Project 365 edits and found one [okay, about five] that I liked better. So..here I am, changing my mind at nearly 10:30 on Wednesday night because I am indecisive. And truth be known, if I don’t hit PUBLISH when I’m done and close my computer for the night, I’m bound to change my mind again. So without further ado:
I was really excited about how this one turned out. I used new textures that I found from the uh-mazing Kim Klaussen. And I used the Pioneer Woman Actions that I am so very, very fond of. I shot this using my Canon Rebel Xsi and I actually shot it with my 18-55 kit lens. I haven’t been using this lens much, but after seeing how some of these photos turned out…I am PRETTY sure that I just changed my mind. Head over to Monica’s to play along. I’m also entering this in the You Capture Theme: Flowers!
Sweet Shot
>> Tuesday, September 21, 2010
Ok. I’m totally and completely 110% behind on editing and posting. As we speak [ok, well as I type] I am attempting to eat supper (at a very late 10:00 pm), edit said photos that I am behind on and type this little post up for tomorrow. I don’t like when I miss challenges. I feel out of it. And I don’t feel cool. Because there is no post here for all of you to come comment on. So that’s why I’m going all Carrie Bradshaw right now as I multi-task and type and post and eat and…well you get the picture. I have not chosen a winner for my Giveaway here yet. I’m sorry. I will have it posted for you tomorrow. For sure. Please accept my apologies now and have a look at the photo that I have chosen for my Sweet Shot this week.
I took this in the broad daylight by the window in the kitchen. However, when I saw it on my computer when I uploaded it, I knew that I had something totally different in mind for this photo. And this was it. Dark background with the bright contrasting yellow. I could really get all philosophical on you here, but I won’t.
And since it’s Tuesday and I just discovered this new challenged, I thought I would show you the original before photo so that I could link up with Touch up Tuesday. So here you go. The before:
Stem Removal
>> Thursday, September 16, 2010
I love sunflowers. Other than daisy’s, they are my favorite flower. Something about them screams happiness to me. When I purchased these at Walmart mart the other day, I knew they were going to be the subject of many, many photos. I wanted to take a few that focused on the petals. However, since they were going into a vase after their photoshoot, I didn’t want to cut them stems off. So when I snapped my photo I got stuck with this ugly white streak of bokeh in the background. Which was simply not acceptable. SO….I fixed it.
I [obviously] did some cropping and used layers and a lot of blur action to remove the stem. It’s still not as perfect as I would like it to be, but the textures I added took away what little bit of the stem removal you could see. I also adjusted the layers to brighten the center of the flower and a lot of sharpening to get the detailed look that I wanted. All of the textures I applied were found via Google. All for free. I shot this with the Canon Rebel Xsi using my 50 mm/1.8 lens and edited in Photoshop Elements 8.
Before & After
>> Thursday, September 9, 2010
I really hate shooting photos in doors. No matter how close to the window I get, I am never completely satisfied with the outcome. Even with the correct White Balance. This photo I liked because of the clarity of the spots on the flower [pardon my use of the term ‘spots…’ I know nothing about gardening or flowers. LOL] But the lighting of the background wasn’t my favorite. So I ran a few actions by The Pioneer Woman and played around with the contrast and levels. I also added textures that I found via Google. I can’t even tell you specifically where they came from. I shot this using my Canon Xsi and a 50 mm/1.8 lens. This was edited in Photoshop Elements 8. Head over to Monica’s for more Before and After photos or to link up your own!
Before and After
>> Wednesday, August 25, 2010
To be completely honest, I can’t decide if maybe I don’t like the original SOOC better. The hazy effect is my favorite, and I’m still baffled that the wrong White Balance and Exposure setting accomplished that on a cloudy day. I could probably NEVER get that shot to look that way naturally again. I do love the texture of the edit. You know me. Texture junkie. Head on over to Monica’s for more awesome Before and After editing. :)
I’m also linking this photo up with You Captures theme this week: Outside.
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