Sometimes like to amuse myself with the dream of whiling away my hours and days as a photographer. Just wandering about snapping pictures of people, places, and events without a thought of bills or even supporting myself or my family. Damn my lack of a trust fund.
Lately, I have been playing around more with re-touching my photos, mostly with color, contrast, and hue levels. The first shot was fairly washed out, the clouds were indiscernible and the trees a flat brown. The middle picture suffered from the same washout but both managed to become a little more dramatic after some contrast and color work.
The last is one of my favorites. It was shot in terrible indoor lighting near nightfall at 85 MM. In order even get anything recognizable I switched to black and white and shot at 1600 ISO with the result being more than a little grainy and muddy. Playing around heavily with the color curves created a scene of stark contrasts and along with some cropping yielded a really nice product from a rough start.
The b&w pic is great…who are you? Helmut Newton?
LOL! Thanks! I could only hope to be that good!
#3 is excellent.
I’d be interested in seeing the before pictures - to compare these enhanced pictures. ;o) They all look good. That’s a a great portrait of Gabi. I hope she’s watching TV! j/k
I ditto Quyen… most of the photos that I upload get touched in one way or the other, (hue/brightness/contrast normally) although not as much as the above would have required…
My last batch on flikr were unedited, for a change because I had very little time to upload them… (if you want to see an un-edited version)
They’re all very good, your photography skills are getting better and better
Thanks! I should put together a little before and after collage of those images…