What's new

January 5: Embracing Imperfection (Photography Challenge)

My photos the color was off, the focus was off (always on the walker not her), or the photos that were in focus have horrendous backgrounds. I ran a soft whisper action on the pictures and brightened the eyes to make the out-of-focus look intentional. But overall, I just chose to love them. Her joy was captured and that was the important part.
full
 
Picture is an from a photo booth that my friend and I took when we were in 8th grade I believe. I scanned the image and there were a lot of scratches and marks on it that I cleaned up with the clone tool in PSE 12.

 
full

The photo is a selfie I took of my family before church. The lighting is terrible, but it's totally us...so I kept it and journaled about it a bit.
 
Blurry pictures of hands, chairs and ground... a very 'overflashed' selfie from hubby, but it was one fantastic evening!
(story: we had a dinerdate on one evening in 4 different houses with each it's own course. Points were given on food, atmosphere and 'the christmastree'. When I was uploading the pictures of that evening a found a lot of weird pictures ;-) )

 


I used two photos that are very imperfect but caught the kids at the moment. Great challenge!
 

Photo editing – shadows & highlights adjusted in PSE, noise reduction filter added; PW actions used (on photos in the background): Heartland + B&W Beauty and Old West
 

The imperfection in this photo to the washout/blowout on my son..... Logan's face is almost no visible due to the sun setting when I snapped this photo, so as you can see it was right in Logan's face, it was his first time jumping in leaves so I wanted to keep the photo and tried to darken it but I just could not get it right and the more I looked at the photo the more I smiled so I left it unedited.
 
Last edited:
Blurry cell phone pics. I sharpened them & increased saturation, and played around the motion theme.


3cca68cc-39f9-4b71-81b2-582c2515f566_zpsml9ebahy.jpg
20160103_1548401_zpsrq7zcw9w.jpg
20160103_154812_zpsm6vgl26d.jpg
 
Last edited:
First of all the photos were tiny 1.5 x 3 and they had really yellowed over the ages. I gave them a run through Rad Lab and set the mode to Multiply.

El-Towey-lineman6.jpg


Working on the Road Crew 1925.jpg
 

Attachments

  • Working on the Road Crew 1925.jpg
    Working on the Road Crew 1925.jpg
    237.9 KB · Views: 18
Last edited:
A crummy iPhone snap in a hotel room. Far from perfect, but I love seeing them so relaxed together. I just brightened it a bit and desaturated it so it would flow with my paper and element choices better. Thanks for the challenge. A reminder I need to scrap the imperfect too!
full
 
These are some photos from 2009, taken with my iPhone 3 (2 megapixels!) I was attempting to get photos of my kids and husband roller skating, but there was tons of motion blur. Anyone remember the shutter lag back then? Argh!
I decided to just use the photos as-is, and added them to a photo booth-style frame. It is crazy to see how much my kids have grown up since December 2009
full
 
Here is mine. I didn't scrap this previously because my husband took this and it had a really weird distortion (not to mention just bad color). I tweaked the perspective in PS, cropped some of the worst part and then turned to B&W

 
This photo really couldn't be saved, but I love the memory, so I just went with it. I made it lots better than it was, but it was taken in very poor light in the rain, as well as the green glow the umbrella was throwing on everything. I just tried to make it look a bit vintage, which is what I try to do with most of my less than ideal pictures. :P I also detracted a bit with a nicer one that was taken before the rain started.

 
Last edited:
Here is mine. The photo was taken with a cell phone in a dark theatre. I used the auto tone, contrast and color settings on my PS program to improve the photo. I also made my own Star Wars logo there using the fonts Century Gothic and Star Jedi Hollow. I clipped a yellow paper to it.

 
Last edited:
here's my photo - i covered up the yellow wet floor sign with an element in the LO (and i physically moved it for a subsequent photo when we were actually there (it wasn't busy and i put it back after i took a shot of DH and the kids - but the kids were happier in this one). All the photos from this day weren't exactly fab cos of the weather but i got some reflective shots and anyway, we didn't go just to sit in a hotel room... so the LO is about that

 
Last edited:
Back
Top