My original was super dark, and very grainy. I lightened it up, went black and white, and played with filters in RadLab. It's still a mess, but I'm ok with it!
My original photo was in shadows and underexposed. I changed it to black and white, played with depth of field and cropped it.
This image was very dark due to the back lighting, so I lightened us up a bit. It is still a grainy picture, but if we only scrap the perfect ones, we miss stories!
My original photo, a non digi photo scanned in, lots of noise, poor exposure and colour and cluttered background: I extracted my daughter from the background, turned the background black and white and ran a fauxtobaby action (Valorie Wibbens) on it, I think I put the mode to multiply. I merged the two layers then ran the Heartland action (Pioneer Woman) with blending mode darken and reduced opacity. I flipped the photo to suit my page orientation, cropped it and covered one of the dark and messy corners with embellishments. I have LOTS of these poor scanned photos, but I admit the thought of trying to do something similar on them all is very daunting. Nevertheless, I was pleased for the prompt for this photo (the only one available for this story).
A whole SLEW of imperfect photos here! I edited all of them in Lightroom, using exposure adjustments and also photo straightening and correcting for camera distortion. It was a rainy, grey day, so the photos were rather dark and blah.
Thanks a lot for this challenge! Original: I don't like this dark beam and shadows on my DD's face. So I have killed shadows by adding light and cropped to focus attention on her eyes.
terrible out of focus photo and nothing that can be done to save it...so I embrace it as I love her pure happy smile here.
I used a mixture of blurry and clear photos in sequence to tell my story, letting the better photos "carry" the less-good ones.
Here is my original photo: I increased the exposure, sharpened, and added a touch of sparkle to the eyes:
Here is mine - The original photo was a bit blurry so I made it black and white. You could also see the buffet table behind my daughter which was very distracting. [/IMG]