Monday, October 22, 2012

Day 48: A True Before and After

I'm a little nervous to put this one up here.  A couple of disclaimers... 1. Getting a properly exposed, backlit picture is an art.  Definitely harder than photographers get credit for.  2. Most of my images do NOT look like this SOOC (straight out of camera) and I hardly ever need to do this much in editing.  I hated to give up on this one because I had a couple variations of it and really had hope in it.

So here it is.  Don't judge me.  P.S. I didn't technically take a picture of the day.  I was an editing fool all day and felt the several sessions I had this weekend made up for it.

Before.  Eek.

After.  Used layer masks to brighten shadows, highlight protection, cloned out the pillar/light pole and put in more grass, adjusted colors a tad and of course cropped.

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