For the month of October, we decided to challenge ourselves with editing some photos taken by other members of the blog circle! It was so fun and interesting working on photos that you hadn't taken yourself. We had the opportunity to take them and add our own style. I feel that I am definitely still coming into my own, so doing this was very challenging, but interesting and rewarding at the same time! Here is before and afters, and a list of edits for those photographers that care to know what I did :)
First is Kristi's image. I loved this shot. It made me really wish I had photoshop (I'm coming to that conclusion a lot lately).
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| Original - Kristi Williams |
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| My Edit |
I am a fan of bright, contrasting images. I messed around with it alot, but generally I brightened it up, added a bit of contrast, adjusted the colors to make them really pop, and softened and brightened some skin tones. I wish I had photoshop to help with some of the skin on her amrs but I did crop this image down a touch, as I wanted to draw the focus to the details in the flowers and away from her bust and arms. Very fun! And a gorgeous shot Kristi!
Here's another much loved shot by my dear Sis-in-law Lynisha! I am so lucky to have photographers in the family :) And this is my adorable sis-in-law Relyssa just about to pop with baby number 1. I feel awfully blessed to have married into the family I did. So much fun all the time (from babies, to more babies, to photographers, to bakers, to more babies!) Hehe.
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| Original - Lynisha Weeda |
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| My Edit |
Again, bright and contrasty and I really wish I had photoshop! (did I mention that?) I literally took a LOT of time cloning out that black mat by her feet, and seeing the pics together I'm sure you can tell (although i'm pretty sure by itself an untrained eye would miss it). So, I brightened, contrasted, and fiddles with colors to bring out the blue in the sky and the green in the grass. I love the detail on the umbrella, which is silly, but it really seems to make it look 3D and I like it :) Super fun, and I love that dress! I want it :) hehe
Last but not least, Lisa's landscape photo! This one was more difficult for me for some reason. I just couldn't envision it I guess, so I ended up doing a lot of playing. But I think for a photo out of my comfort zone it turned out pretty nice! (hopefully not a disservice to my dear friend!)
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| Original - Lisa McConnel |
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| My Edit |
As you can see, I cropped out a bit of the blurred fore ground. Again I added brightness and contrast, and because of that had to mess with the colors a bit to get the yellows to be a little more muted and bring out the blue of the sky and the green of the grass again. It makes it pop a bit more I think :)
So all in all, our editing challenge was so fun, and a great experience!
See what Dalayna (another sister in law! aren't I so lucky!) has in store for this months blogging challenge!
