Black and White Practice

 Here I took a photo from a random search on google (aka, this is not a picture I have taken). This photo was in color, and I have posted them in black and white (captain obvious, I know).  I used Lightroom 5 to do it. They are listed from the first manipulation to the last one. The third one I had just come back from a quick break, and remembered about Split Toning.  I turned it into a sepia picture just for fun.  Then I toned it down a bit.  I like the warmth I added on the last one, but I tried to not add too much so it would still look like a black and white.

Assignment #3: Low and High Key

 Here I have posted what my camera thought the picture should look like verses my own opinion.  I learned from this assignment that, while my camera's automatic shutter speed can be useful, it does not always know what I want.  It made my white objects too dark and my dark objects far too light and a yellowish tint.  My camera does not have a brain of it's own, neither is it telepathic.  So I just have to tell it what I want, because there is no way it could know.  I am a little tired, and I feel like I just keep rambling on, so I bit you farewell for now, and a good day.

More Lightroom

Just adding a picture that I have already processed in Lightroom 5.  I learned a few new things, and applied them to this "new" picture.

Assignment #2

 Here are the seven pictures that I have chosen for this blog post.  This was a particularly frustrating assignment for me, seeing how I could not re-take any of my pictures.  Luckily, I was able to get a few good (though not perfect) ones.

 

Assignment #1 Scavenger Hunt

These are the raw images that I am going to play with for my first assignment.

 Here are my modified pictures.  I have realized that every time I update something in Lightroom, I always increase the white exponentially.  I like how clean it makes my pictures look, and I need to be better with lighting in my initial pictures.

 And here is the final installment to my first assignment.  I feel like the "presets" in Lightroom should be renamed to "you should never ever use these things."  While I tried my best to make these as ugly as possible, my sister has told me that she actually likes the dog picture.  That's a shame.