Week 7 – SOOC Challenge Edited

I know I am a little late on linking up with Ashley for this week’s SOOC challenge, but I still wanted to show you my personal edits from my photographs I took on Monday.

About a year ago, my beloved taught me about the “High Pass” filter in Photoshop. I do not use it often in my portrait photographs, because it is not very complimentary for portraits (too sharp). But it does wonders for any regular photography. Even with an untrained eye, you surely can see the difference between SOOC (straight out of camera) and the edited version. I really like my 50mm, 1.4 Canon lens, but it softens your images.

Here is the pink Nook cover, first the SOOC photograph and than the edited version:

 

Pink Nook Cover

 

Pink Nook Cover_Edit

Here is how I worked my edit: Duplicated the layer, Filter/Other/High Pass, applied the filter with 89%. Next I used the “Brightness/Saturation” slider to take down the glare a hair. You can see that the seams of the Nook cover are much sharper than in the original photograph.

Next is the original of my Bible with the pink highlighter (the passage here highlighted in pink is Colossians 1:10-12). See how soft the image is with the 50mm with an Aperture of 2.5?

Bible & Pink Highlighter

Bible_Pink Highlighter_2_Edit

I again used the “High Pass” filter, layered it over the image with the “Vivid Color” setting @ 75%. I also dabbled a little with the brightness. See how much sharper the image becomes with the filter. I think it is cool 🙂 .

There is so much we can do to enhance the photographs we take, but we have to also be very careful on how much we edit and what we edit. Some of the techniques do not work with portrait photographs (at least not for my clients and me).

Thank you for stopping by today. I hope I was able to explain a little more about my personal editing of my photographs.

Have a blessed weekend, my friends.

PS: please remember that all photographs shared on my blog are copyrighted to me – Thanks!

Week 7 Shoot to Edit SOOC

Well, I sat out last week, but I thought to give it a try this week. The theme? “Pink”. Believe it or not, but pink is my all-time favorite color. I have many pinks in my closet and around the house. Since my hubby knows my favorite color, my Nook cover is pink 😛 .

So here are my two photographs for this week. The first one is my nook cover, photographed without flash under my table lamp in the living room:


Not sure if I like all the glare on this photograph; I might format it, or maybe not…How knows.

The second photograph I fired my Speedlite 430 TTL flash, bouncing of the wall. I like this photograph better SOOC, because I have not that high glare I have from the lamp. I still want to edit it, but will wait until Thursday for Ashley’s edit suggestions.


If you are interested in seeing the bigger version of the two photographs, go over my Flickr page 🙂 . To check out more “Pink” images, please visit my friend Jill at Forever n Ever N Always Photography.

Thanks for stopping by and reading my rambling…

Have a great night,