Cardini-Anderson Photography

Wedensday B&W Photo On Saturday.

This week I decided to take my photo in the Black & White mode instead of in the color mode. What I learned from doing this is that I have to learn more about the lighting. Alhough my photo came out okay I was not very happy with it. So I brought it into Lightroom and played with the exposure, lighting and then added a preset to it called "Old Money". I think it came out pretty good. Here is my entry for the Wedensday Black & White weekely challenge.

 

 

 

Of course I had to take a photo of my rooster pitcher in color as well. In all honesty I do like the photo in color better. But...........I refuse to give up taking B&W photos. I love a good challenge. SMILE :)

A Black & White & A Sepia Photo

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. :)