I took this picture last year.
I love it, but I felt like it needed something extra done with it. My camera washed the scene out; while it looks hazily romantic, it’s not clear enough to see what was there.
Here’s what I came up with: first, I darkened it to make it look closer to the actual scene.
Then, just for fun, I took the colour out of it.
I like the way the swans pop out of the picture in this last one.
Which do you prefer?
For this week’s Cosmic Photo Challenge, the prompt was “Into the woods”, giving you a pretty broad theme of trees, woodlands, forests, leaves, anything arboreal in fact. You can find it by clicking
here.
May 10, 2016 at 2:18 pm
I like all of them. They are each in their way beautiful!
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May 11, 2016 at 10:00 am
Thank you, Bee! 🙂
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May 9, 2016 at 9:04 pm
Depending on what you want to communicate, either of the treated pictures would be excellent.
As an aside Linda, I did a guest post over at Cordelia’s Mom https://cordeliasmomstill.com/2016/05/09/good-chemistry-guest-post-by-paul-curran/#comment-17107 I’d be honored if you had the time to drop by.
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May 11, 2016 at 9:51 am
Thanks, Paul. 🙂
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May 9, 2016 at 7:38 pm
I like the last one too. It looks so ethereal! ❤
Diana xo
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May 11, 2016 at 9:50 am
Thanks, Diana! 🙂
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May 9, 2016 at 6:21 pm
I like both the treated versions, the last one looks almost Victorian. Thanks for taking part Linda.
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May 11, 2016 at 9:49 am
You’re welcome! It’s fun. 🙂
I did my best to replicate sepia, since the program I have doesn’t do it. I’ve gotta get a better program. 😛 Problem is, I could spend hours with it that I don’t have.
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May 11, 2016 at 11:25 am
I like PicSay Pro, that’s what I use for all my mucking about with photos.
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May 11, 2016 at 11:27 am
Cost?
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May 11, 2016 at 12:51 pm
I paid just over a pound I think. £1.49 maybe. Not sure if there’s a desktop version, but the mobile app is pretty much all I use for still photo editing.
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May 11, 2016 at 3:12 pm
Cool. 🙂 I’ll look it up. I’ve looked over the Google photo editing program, but it seems very confusing at first glance.
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May 11, 2016 at 3:25 pm
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.shinycore.picsaypro
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May 11, 2016 at 4:58 pm
Thank you. 🙂
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May 9, 2016 at 5:38 pm
I like the middle version 🙂
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May 11, 2016 at 9:36 am
I think it’s my favourite too. 🙂
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May 9, 2016 at 5:31 pm
Oh, I like the middle one best. It’s fuller, richer, warmer; making the area seem as if it goes on for miles… in my humble obzervashun.
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May 11, 2016 at 9:35 am
Thanks so much, K’lee! 😀
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May 11, 2016 at 2:59 pm
Absolutely.
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May 9, 2016 at 5:28 pm
This is a great shot, Linda. I was going to say there’s a romantic quality to it, but you beat me to the punch!
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