So sweet. Do you ever do any post processing? This would benefit from being lightened just a little so we could see her concentration even better I love the choice of POV
@grammyn Thank you, Katy. I always appreciate advice. I did lighten this a little. I was practicing shutter speed and didn't realize how dark it was. My granddaughter doesn't give me do-overs.
I used your photo and altered it in post processing. It isn't always necessary to have a do over when you can fix it in the compouter. Mind you I have very limited skills and if I haven't offended you and you are interested look at what I did.and tell me what you think
@grammyn Hi, Katy! I viewed the before and after images of this shot on your page and I'm curious . . . did you lighten it by adjusting the levels? I'm always trying to learn post processing tips because it's slow going for me in that area. Great job on the lightening, by the way! :-)
@tunia@gaylewood first of all thank you so much Tunia. I don't know how to use Photoshop and I don't have nearly the talent so many other people on 365 do but I have learned a lot over the last five years by trial and error. I edited the shot in Windows photo viewer which I have on my computer. Whenever I click on the photo that I have saved in my computer it automatically comes up in Windows photo viewer then I choose Microsoft office picture manager as a way to edit. I click on picture and the next choice is brightness and contrast which I also click on. There are some sliders on the right and for this particular picture I slid the mid tones all the way to the right 100%. I slid the brightness 10%. Then I think I slid the contrast 20%. All of this was to the right. In addition to that I cropped it, again going back to picture at the top of the page and choosing crop, aspect ratio 3 x 4, and portrait option. What that did was bring her a little closer or made her look just a little bit bigger in the photo. This is really a very simple and basic edit but you can see the difference that it made. I don't know what kind of editing programs you have on your computer but there are lots of free ones available that you don't even have to download that can do the same kind of thing. It just takes practice and playing around with it. Don't forget to always make a duplicate picture until you know what you are doing so you don't mess up the original. I hope this is been helpful and again I am no expert.
@tunia I should also perhaps have mentioned that had you used a little flash it would have filled in some light on her face too. I haven't tried that very much and don't have any real skill or knowledge of it but I have seen that in several different places as a way to take the shadows off of faces
@grammyn Thank you so much. I use Pixlr to edit and I'm sure it can do all those steps. I just quit too easily. 365ers work hard to get their photos and work hard to make them right. Sometimes I'm just plain lazy.
@grammyn Thank you so much for your very thorough explanation. It always helps me so much to know the steps people take when they are editing an image. I use Photoshop for editing but I am at a very basic level. I always check and try to adjust the levels...brightness, contrast, colors...but again, basic level stuff. I learned the hard way early on to ALWAYS "save as" and make a duplicate photo to keep the original untouched. That's an important thing to mention. :-)
Thank you again for taking the time to explain these editing steps . . . very much appreciated!
@tunia I get the lazy part because I usually try the easiest way to process too.Some of it for me is not kowing what all the words mean or will do so I just give up because I can't remember what I did to get where I am! My best advice is just play around with it a lot and eventually it will get easier whatever you use
Thank you again for taking the time to explain these editing steps . . . very much appreciated!