Photography and Homeschooling (Roadschooling as often as we can)
Cisco was one of the best horses ever. Reagan loved tacking him up, riding him, and helping clean and feed him afterwards.
I cropped in the original and mainly worked on color temperature and tint to make it a little dreamy and to focus on their faces.
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On our trek across America, we left Yellowstone on the NE Entrance Road. This is one of the vistas, the Lamar River in the Lamar Valley. Breathtaking!
The original picture was too flat. Increasing the clarity and contrast helped create depth in the photo. Now your eye follows the river to the mountains in the back of the picture.
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The Old Post Office Tower has one of the best views of Washington D.C. that I have not experienced yet. Though I guess the view from where I took this picture isn’t too shabby!
The original was so dark. Probably because, looking at the clock on the tower, I took it at 8:10 PM. With this one, I played around with the temperature and tint in the Basic section, and then the individual colors in the Color Adjustments section to get a look that I like. I need to practice more with removing chromatic aberration. I tried with the image above (you can see it in the clock tower especially), but wasn’t successful. It may be the result of all the messing around I did in the Color Adjustments section.
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A metallic standing jellyfish.
I had to go back and look at the all the photos I took on the original date to figure out what was going on. Someone found the jellyfish lying in the sand and stood it up. It was shimmery already and editing it brought out the metallic color.
The original:
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I’m liking the low contrast look for artsy editing. What do you think?
Original: A little dark, but I didn’t want to just brighten it clarify everything. Let me know what you think about the hazy edit above.
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One of the most important buildings in America. Think about the magnitude of the importance of the documents that are housed here.
With all our faults, we are still one amazing country.
I must have been trying to get creative with the angle that I shot this. I cleaned that up, turned it black and white, lowered the contrast, and increased the clarity. The original:
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Not So SAHM 