Flowers & a kitten...

Before & After

 I've always enjoyed looking at before editing & after editing shots... so here are a few that I did. I don't know that you can even tell the difference really... since I don't really know what I'm doing when it comes to editing, I tend to edit "light". ("light" as in "hardly at all".) So the first picture, I just lightened it up a bit.

This one I desaturated the grass and trees, mostly. I think it looks neat that way... however, I don't really mind the first version of the photo. 

This picture actually looks the most dramatically different between the before & after photos (which I am rather proud of) but for some reason blogger won't let me post the one picture. Oh well. I still like the way it turned out. 

Some new pictures...

I did some editing on Photoshop last night... I don't know anything about Photoshop, I just have the trial version for the next 17 days. I wish that I knew more how to work it, and what I was doing, but I think that I made this picture look better (below) :

  

The one above is pre-edited, and the one below is edited. I didn't do much to it, because I liked the way it looked already, but I think the coloring is much more realistic. Or at least, more how I remember him looking when I just looked at him, rather than what my camera recorded.

I just liked this picture below...

Just for fun...

While visiting with family I found this fun spot in the river? stream? Whatever... but thought I'd try to capture it with a slow shutter speed. I didn't bring my tripod, so I had to crouch down and balance my camera on my knee to keep it steady. Then I messed around with free editing software called Gimp. (I think) I had fun, totally boosted color and things like that... I have NO idea how to edit photos, but this was just fun to play around with. Someday I'll learn how to do this correctly. :) Until then, it was fun!

Recent photoshoot...

I actually just did these photos today... or, well, yesterday, I guess I should say... but I am very excited about the way that they turned out. My beautiful niece is turning 8 this year, and for families that are members of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints, that's a big deal year! (If you would like more info. on what I believe in, click HERE.)

I love these faces...

Ah, the beauties of nature...