Playing with Photoshop

I was going through some pictures from the other day. I especially liked this particular image, but for sentimental reasons. Specifically, I like it because it is a picture of me and my "baby". What is not to love about it, right? :-)

I didn't take the picture (I know, Duh!) However, I wanted to play with it and see what I could come up with. I also wanted to try for a more silverish effect on a black and white image. Here is what I came up with. What do you think?

And the May winner is...

Kristal!!!! Congratulations!!! She has won her choice of photo in an 8 by 10 standout format!

Thanks for all of you that participated. I greatly enjoy these posts. I hope you do as well. I am working on a few pictures I took down by the river last night. There are a few sunset and a few Blue Heron. I hope to have them finished soon.

In the mean time, I realized that the picture I posted last time was processed before I learned quite a few of the techniques I use today. So I thought I would review it and see what the updated version would look like. Well Here it is...

Updated

Original

So which one do you like better?

Color vs Black and White

Thought I would reprocess one of my recent sunsets as a black and white image. It seems kind of alien to see something that is so full of color to be stripped of everything except tonal contrast. What do you think?

Same picture, just processed two different ways.

BTW-don't forget to checkout the May GiveAway. So far only two people entered, so still good odds at getting a shot to win a 8 by 10 standout. Hope your week is going well.

Work in Process...

So here is the original and the edited version. I really like the sky and cannons on the edited, but i can't seem to get a good green for the grass. I settled with some greener highlights and some along with the original brown base, but still not what I was hoping for.

What do you think? Like it? Believable grass coloration?

Battlefield Re-processed

Here is one that I took last week. I played around with it a bit this morning. I am thinking of changing my title image to one similar to this one. What do you guys think? I would probably wait till later in the spring to get a better range of color and contrast. Also change a couple of  nit-pick things about the composition, but anyway since I can feel the yawns and boredom growing in my target audience, I will go ahead and shut up now... :-)



I love Photoshop!

Pretty straight forward post. I love being able to take a shot that was lacking due to poor lighting, motion blur, and any number of things and turn it to something useful.