Last summer I shot almost exclusively in B&W but now I can’t stand all those shots. Too much grey, not enough contrast and depth. I’ve played with B&W on and off since then but can never make my pictures look like I want them to look.
I am getting there, slowly but surely.
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Before: The Slug
After: The Caterpillar
The story: Addy is very curious about insects and critters. We found this little slug which she found most disgusting. She was not happy with the slug. But when we found this caterpillar she was quite excited. They became fast friends.
* you, too, can join in Stacy’s awesome Theme Thursdays each week. I chose to focus on before & after as it relates to mood. Here’s my Before & After as it relates to post-processing:
SOOC:
Post-processed:
The original was so blown out that I just couldn’t do much with it without taking the time and effort to open up photoshop (whew! I’m panting already from the exhaustion of it all! ha). So I played around with softness, a white matte and desaturated it to about 25%, all through Picnik. My goal was to try to convey the tender moment a little better. I posed it to my blog and was really shocked at the positive response it got since I liked it for about 5 seconds before I decided I didn’t. haha.
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