One Four Challenge – January Week 4 – Vote for your Choice

Robyn’s four week One Four Challenge, involves posting a photo each week that you have adjusted/altered in four different ways. Participants range from amateur to professional photographers, and the software, they use similarly widespread.

Last week I experimented with LR, but this week I have used a phone camera app, Sketch Guru, to crop and apply an artistic effect to the photograph. Click on the smaller photos to enlarge. The original photo is seen here.

Week 1 straightened and shadows adjusted

Week 2 Heavily saturated and framed

Week 3 exposure decreased in LR

Week 4 – Sketch Guru App – Painted effect

As always I invite you to select your favourite from the four weeks, vote, and post constructive feedback and criticism, if you feel so inclined. I appreciate everyone’s opinion.

I am going with Week 3 to win????

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Something to Ponder About

One Four Challenge Week 3

Thanks to Carrie, I downloaded  and experimented with Light Room over the course of this week. Gimp required more time than I had at this point, as I am away from home at present, so LR was app of choice. Even so, I was a bit puzzled as to how I was going to change the photo to another perspective, other than the saturated angle.

I played around with exposure, contrast. shadows, clarity and color. I am pleased the boat stands out more yet I would still prefer to see a more verdant mountain, so I will see if I can work that out next week.

I lightened this version so it didn’t look like a night shot.
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Something to Ponder About.

One four Challenge – Week 2 January

This week I played around with the saturation, contrast and brightness finally adding a HDR and frame effect in PicsArt. Thanks to Carrie’s advice I  downloaded ‘gimp’ but as yet still just trying to fathom my way through the incredible depth of tools available.

I’d very much appreciate your thoughts or feedback on this week. I feel the saturation in the water is way too much, so compensating for the soft effect of wordpress was way over the top this week? Well, that is a project for next week!!

Week ONE of the January challenge is HERE

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Some photo effects to ponder and play with.

One Four Challenge – January ( Bellagio) – Week 1

Original

 

This Challenge is not only pretty easy to do: one photo, edited four different ways, but it is also pretty easy to learn many things, from good photographers, along the way.

Week 1 – cropped and lightened the image.  Straightened and cropped somewhat. This is a photo I could really get my teeth into editing.

Edited, straightened and shadows adjusted

That’s a bit better!!!! But I have lost a bit of the peephole effect.

Photograph taken with an aging Canon Power Shot, and adjusted via a Nexus 4 editing software – July 2014

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I’d very much appreciate your thoughts or feedback. I would really like the photo to highlight the patterns in the mountains, and keep the peephole effect.

Something to Ponder About

One Four Challenge – Dec wk 4 – Polls

Final Week of the One Four Challenge for December – I invite you to vote for your preferred choice below.

ORIGINAL PHOTOGRAPH

Original

 

Week 1

Week 1 graduated Tint and monochrome

 

 

Week 2

Week 2 Lomo filter

Week 3

Week 3  (a) Contrast adjusted graduated tint and re-cropped and sharpened

 

Week 3 Photo (b) Additional colour inversion and frame, just for fun!

 

Week 4

Trying to gain a new perspective of the object in week 4 and with my limited effects on the desktop PC Photo editor this was the result.

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I’d very much appreciate your thoughts or feedback.

Something to Ponder About

One Four Photo Challenge – December Week 3

I loved the colours in the driftwood in the original photograph, shown in the previous One four Challenge post,  but really wanted to see where the effects could take this with my desktop photo editor.

One Four Challenge – Dec

This week I tried to alter this picture a little more. I cropped out the large black mass at the base of the photo and straightened it a little, then adjusted the contrasts and added a graduated tint to the top.

 

But it wasn’t that much different from last week, so I added an effect  and a frame for fun!

Quite dramatic I think! A ghostly effect, although I seemed to have created another dark mass at the base. Perhaps that is a task to adjust for next week?

A photography challenge to Ponder About

 

Photo Challenge

Being new to this challenge means that I have some catching up to do, so I started with a simple image from my afternoon walk along the beach.

I loved the colours in the driftwood in the original photograph, but really wanted to see where the effects could take this with my desktop photo editor.

Original Photograph

After applying a black and white effect with a graduated tint, I tried a Lomo filter through Picasa.

Week 1 – Black and White

Black and white with Graduated tint

At this point, I am still going with the original as the better of the two…..

Week 2 – Lomo -ish Filter (via Picasa)

Iwas pretty pleased with the Lomo effect! Intensity, drama and saturation but next week I will try to define the driftwood more.