Visiting Ellis Island was a great history lesson. I don’t know that I have any direct ancestors who passed through here — so many families do.
At first, I was working on editing the whole picture. Then I zoomed in to the torch for some reason and realized I wanted to focus on that. There’s so much detail! I decreased the contrast and increased the clarity. I also lightened the shadows. I used adjustment brushes on the underneath of the torch and on the bottom tip. I decreased the noise a bit and added a vignette. Here’s the original:
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Not So SAHM 