I have been editing photos in between the holidays. I love editing and spend hours on the photos that Wayne and I take. I don't think that I will ever get tired of taking one photo and editing it many ways. Today, I am sharing one of my favorite photos that was taken on Christmas Eve. First I did it in Sepia and then decided that I wanted to be a part of the Wedensday Black and White challenge so I took the same photo and made it into B&W. I made & added word art to both of the photos. I like the way that they both came out.
Here is the B&W photo.
This is a photo of Hillary and Coleen,my step-daughters.
Here is how I edited the photo to look B&W.
I brought it into Lightroom 3 straight out of the camera. I added the preset optimist brought my exposure down to where I wanted it. Then I added a second preset called Hero medium and played with my black slider until I was happy with the way that my photo looked. Because I have to resize my photos down to 800x600 so that I can put them on my blog they tend to look blurry. If you would like to see my photos the way that I do just double click on them.
Here is my Sepia photo.
Once again, I used Lightroom3 to edit my photo. I used the presets Freebird and Chocolate Rain. I used the fill light and the exposure slider until I was happy with the look. Thanks so much fro stopping by and have a wonderful rest of the week. Smile. :)
Beautiful job, Mary! I love both versions! And what a difference it makes to double click! Plus, this is an adorable pose for sisters!
Posted by: Ann Schach | January 05, 2012 at 01:11 AM
These are both wonderful Mary and I'm so glad you included your editing process! I work in Lightroom too, and love it.
Posted by: Heidi | January 05, 2012 at 02:30 AM