Post-Processing

I never get too fancy with post-processing. Even though I have the full version of Photoshop, I generally just make a few adjustments in iPhoto before uploading my photos anywhere. The most common changes I make include straightening, adjusting the exposure, playing with the histogram to bring lighter or darker tones into the shot, or boosting the contrast. Sometimes I'll change the hue of the shot to give it a different feel. Here are my most recent Flickr uploads, post-processed.


in this shot i just boosted the contrast by a lot to emphasize the vignette effect of the lens setup i was using.


for this one i increased the contrast by a lot, and also played around with the colors to make it a little more interesting. the original tones of the picture were yellowy because of the light from the sunset, but the post-processed version is much more colorful.


yesterday afternoon i got out of work and was waiting for mark to finish up in the lab, so i wandered around campus for a while and took a few pictures. the sun was setting, and i came across these abandoned mums and was struck by the way the sunlight was coming through. in post-processing, i boosted the contrast.


i'm trying to remember exactly what i did with this one... i'm pretty sure i just increased the contrast to make the sun more dramatic.


this one i cropped, straightened and brought up the contrast. i'm in love with these shoes.


i cropped this shot to make it seem like a panorama, and boosted the saturation by a lot to enhance the colors. i always have trouble enhancing the saturation- i feel like i'm cheating the viewer, or something. like, it wasn't THAT beautiful in real life- but that's okay, right?


boosted the contrast, adjusted the color to accentuate the bricks and the sunlight.


cropped it, boosted the contrast to the point of darkening her blue jeans to black.

I wish I could post the original images to offer a comparison, but I don't tend to keep a raw version of the pictures I take. I think I'm going to start doing that; I just need to find a good way to organize my pictures. If you've got any tips, I'd love to hear from you! Right now my pictures are just backed up on my external, organized by arbitrary folder names and approximate dates. I edit the originals, and save them that way, so I never have the raw images to go back to. Anyway.