editing – Wandering Dawgs

This week Ritva is looking back to Tina’s challenge #154 – One Photo Two Ways. You can view Tina’s original challenge here. Ritva asks us “to explore the different methods you use to create images.”

I don’t always do a lot of photo editing except for cropping and sometimes a few minor edits. For this challenge I have chosen three images and used different editing techniques to create the final image. In each of the examples the original photo is on the left with the final edited image on the right.

For my first example I took a photo of pink Knockout Roses. I thought the original photo was kind of blah so I cropped the photo to a square with two blooms and replaced the background with black to bring out the vibrant pick blooms.

In this next example I wanted to give this old cabin at the Fort King Georgie State Historic Site a more old fashioned look. First I cropped the photo to focus on the cabin surrounded by the ancient oak trees. I then converted the image to sepia tones.

In this final example I thought the original photo of the blue umbrellas and chairs on the beach was ok but I wanted to make it a little more fun. I tried several different effects before I decided I liked the way it looked with a colored pencil effect.

Many thanks to guest host Steve Hyde’s for hosting last week’s challenge. Your responses to his Best Ever Photo challenge were fantastic. Thank you to everyone who joined the challenge.

Thank you to our host Ritva for this week’s fun challenge. If you would like to join the challenge please be sure to tag your post with Lens-Artists and include a link back to her post Lens-Artists #410: One Photo Edited.

Be sure to check back on Saturday, August 29 at noon eastern time when Sofia will be hosting the challenge.

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Every Day is a Gift

This week Ritva is challenging us to be bold and creative with our cropping. She is encouraging us to deliberately defy traditional framing conventions. At first I didn’t think I could come up with anything but her many great examples inspired me to give it a try.

I almost always crop my photos to begin the editing process. For this post I tried some new to me cropping techniques. The original photo of our dog checking out the butterfly was not close enough to see the details of the butterfly. Normally I would crop the photo into a rectangle but I tried making a square image instead. It’s out of my comfort zone but I hope you like it.

Curious Labrador Retriever finds a butterfly

This photo of a crocodile was originally shot in landscape mode. I like the way it turned out after I cropped it to portrait mode.

I wanted to have lots of negative space in the next image so I cropped out the palm tree that was in the original.

I snapped this final photo of the Sidney Lanier Bridge out the car window as we were leaving Jekyll Island, Georgia. At first I wanted to trash it but I decided the negative space of the cloudy sky added to the image.

Thank you to everyone who responded to my challenge last week of What Astonishes You! Your responses were amazing and showed us many astonishing images.

I hope you will join us this week for Ritva’s Lens-Artists #385: Unusual Crop. Be sure to tag your post with Lens-Artists and link back to Ritva’s post.

Be sure to check back on Saturday, February 21 at noon eastern time when Patti will be hosting the challenge.

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Every Day is a Gift