Touching up Tuesday

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This is my first time participating in Sweet Shot Tuesday over @ my 3 boybarians check out her blog and photo challeneges.

I took several macro shots for these photo challenges but this one stuck out ALOT. I love the "peeping tom" aspect of it. Its like we're on the outside looking in or even spying on something private or not usually seen. Ahh, I just love it! Makes my heart go pitter patter. Anyway, the first exposure is straight out of the camera. I love the shadows on the leaf and throughout the exposure in the sooc, but I am a fan of the edit because of the background and the light. Hmm, both are "good" in my book.

First I read a smart fix. Then I did a color variation on the exposure, increasing the green midtones, decreasing the red, and slightly lightened. Next, I adjusted hue/saturation, switching to edit greens first, I increased the saturation, lightened just a little before going to the yellows. Again, I increased the saturation and lightness. And we have our edit!

Shooting in Raw

SOOC




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I am really new to Photoshop CS5 and new to photo editing in general, but I guess I am learning pretty well. I shot in raw and man oh man if you don't you really, really have to try it. At first you don't think that, yeah, its not that much different. But when it comes to editing it makes ALL THE DIFFERENCE.
I adjusted the exposure, making the photo brighter by taking away some shadows. I messed with the brightness, barely slide down the contrast and added a little more saturation. And I'm done.

*Note I did all this in the Raw editor that comes up when you shot in Raw and simpy saved. I don't think that you can change the exposure on a JPEG. I could be wrong.*