Some of my favorite photos
I’m double dipping on this photo for Cee’s Challenges. The fun foto challenge is wet things and mid week challenge is the color cafe. This dock is wet from rain and is a cafe-ish color. I’ll be taking a posting break for about 2 weeks but hopefully can pop in and comment on photos.
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.
I can’t believe that March is over and we are in April. I’m loving the spring flowers and warmer weather (on some days). Here are some of my favorites from last month.
My husband had a business trip in Vegas so I was there for a few days of his trip. We went into a store called “I Love Sugar” but for me it was I Love Color.
While waiting for a bus to take us to the west rim of the Grand Canyon – I snapped this photo of a coyote – a first for me. This is heavily cropped.
Spring is showing it’s color and beauty.
I call this one beach minimalism.
One of my favorite birds visited our yard!!
It’s the grandsons’ first day on the soccer field.
We’re never to old for the playground – even at 14!!
Until next time!!
This week’s topic on CFFC is “Things That are Smooth”. These are freshly laid eggs from my daughter’s chickens.
This week’s topic is Water in Motion and our host is Sofia. Please visit her site where she has beautiful examples with descriptions. My first 2 photos come from the beach – no surprise there 🙂 Even just a few minutes at the beach restores my soul.
I love the sounds of the crashing waves on the shore.
Those same waves can make a beautiful background for photos.
Water that is otherwise still and quiet can change quickly with an incoming noisy goose.
And slight ripples in a lake during the fall can create some beautiful and colorful reflections.
Thanks Sofia for a great topic this week!
norasphotos4u 