The photo I wanted to share today is one I took last weekend, when the frame of our extension was first built. For the first time, Steve, Abbey and I were able to walk around our new rooms and I took this shot of Abbey 'in' her new bedroom:
I liked the idea of the photo - Abbey standing in her new room for the first time, and the beautiful grin on her face as though she's excited about the prospect of moving into it.
But, well, you can all see that it's technically a rotten photo. The lighting is terrible (it was a glary morning) and the framing of the shot is right off. I know that many photographers think that cropping and fixing a photo to the point that I'm about to show you is wrong. It shows a complete lack of talent with photography, only perhaps with computer software - and I agree. Except, sometimes, there's a photo that pulls at your heart strings and you just have to try and salvage it.
Surely I can be forgiven this once?
Anyway, here's what I've done with it:
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I thought it actually looked quite effective, old-fashioned and timeless when I took some of the colour away, also allowing that smile to shine through. I had to remove some glare and play with the exposure, brightness, sharpness and, obviously, cropping.
What do you think?
Want to join in with Photo Friday? Give me your link in the comments and I'll come and check it out. If a few people want to do it, I'll set up a special linky tool in the coming weeks!
Megan
Oh yes, so much better!! That grin was definitely worth the editing. And she's wearing her scarf...squeeeee xx
ReplyDeleteI'm really bad about being aware of lighting/shadows - definitely something to work on. Love her smile in this one - so gorgeous!
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Great photo...delicious smile x
ReplyDeleteI love what you've done, Megan. Does cropping actually make Abbey look closer? Because you can see her facial features more, like you've actually taken another photo and zoomed in one her.
ReplyDeleteOh it's great and the point of the shadows here is that it's the beginnings of her room. I like the idea of photo Friday!
ReplyDeleteGreat editing. Sometimes an image might be technically not quite there, but the emotion and feeling is spot on. Then it's a very fine image indeed. Great first Friday. Looking forward to more.
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that looks great I reckon. Photo idea seems like an awesome idea. I always remember how 'bad' the photos are of me when I was a kid when there was no photoshop.
ReplyDeleteI love that you're doing this Megan. I would like to get better at photography and to consider things more but no nothing at all about it so you'll teach me a thing or two I'm sure. I think you're right, the sentiment of some photos means they are keepers regardless of how "technically excellent" they are. I don't have a single decent photo of the Bebito within his first few hours of being in the world but it's not like I'll delete them ever.
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