Lens Artists Challenge

This week’s challenge is led by Journeys with Johnbo. Here is the description of the challenge:

Please feature three or four images in your gallery that you tweaked for whatever reason as well as the original image straight out of the camera. The edits don’t have to be massive, maybe just cropping to remove unwanted items or reformatting the image size. Or perhaps you made significant edits to create what I like to call an altered reality where you removed or replaced components in the image, changed the color or tone, or otherwise created an entirely different look to the image.

The first image is an eastern phoebe. The edits I made were to crop, basic lighting adjustments and noise removal.

The next photo is a bromeliad plant. The edits included cropping, reducing the exposure, sharpening and enhancing the color.

The last photo is a macro of some tree blossoms. Much of the same (crop, adjust lighting, sharpen) plus tweaking the white balance to remove some of the warmth.

Most of my edits are in Lightroom. I will use Topaz Denoise if the photo is particularly noisy. I prefer this over Lightroom for reduction of a lot of noise in photos. For these photos, I didn’t have to use Topaz since they were not too noisy and LR handled this task nicely.

Thanks John for a great topic!! You can see the full description and his wonderful examples on his site.