Cityscape

This is the orignal picture, it was taken on October 26th, 2010. Since I was in the car I had to put this on sports mode. This was taken right in Bemidji.

This is the edited picture, I used curves, levels and Brightness/Contrast. The curves were set at a input of  171 and an output of 130. Brightness/Contrast was set at a brightness of -21 and a Contrast of -8.
This only thing I did with the level is changed the white to 223.
I like this one better because it was raining and it brings out the look in the sky that it was raining, I looks better with the darkness.

Architecture

This is the original picture. It was taken October 26th at 3:45 P.M. This picture was at the Social Security Administration office in bemidji. The mode this was taken on was portrait. I used the White Balance on this  picture and put it to cloudy without flash.

This is the corrected picture. All I did was enhance this picture. I used Curves with the ouput of 255 and the imput of 236. I also used the brightness/contrast. The brightness was 27 and the contrast was 9.
I like this picture more because even though it was a gloomy day I still gave it a happy feel to it.

Black and White with Color

Orignal Photo

This picture was taken September 21st of 2010. This picture was taken in my front yard on the lilac bushes. I took this picture on vivid mode so the colors would pop out more.

Black and White

This is the picture in black and white. I  just desaturated the picture and used curves on it to make it pop out more.

Black and White with color

This is the picture with color in it. After I desaturated it and curved it I poked out the eye and merged all the extra layers so I could put the color in it. Then, I poked the eye back in and grabbed the eraser and started putting the color back into the leaf.

I like this picture better because it focuses on just the one leaf that I want to focus on. I tried spot healing, clone stamp and healing but they didn't look good with the picture so I had to leave the extra leaves there. But I like the leaf now because it seems to pop out more.



Landscapes

This is the orginal picture it was taken September 29th by the schools parking lot. I took this on landscape.

                                            Corrected Picture

What I changed on this picture is I sponged some of the dullness away. I took out the pile of leaves in the middle of the picture. I used the clone stamp to get rid of leaves. I like this picture better because you can see how sunny it is outside and it looks more natural to me anyway. But I love this one because it brightens up the whole picture and it gives you a new outlook on the day.

                                                                            Sky Landscape.

This picture was taken on September 21st 2010 at 3:35. I was on the bus when I took this picture so I used sport mode to capture this image.

This is the corrected version. I couldn't do to much to this picture so, I just enhanced it to make it brighter. In curves I put the input at 117 and the output at 125. for levels I just moved the grey around and put it at 1.09. Then, I finished this picture with Vibrance, I put the vibrance at +100 and the saturation at +7. I like the corrected one better because it's bright and it doesn't have a shadow affect to it anymore.

Diagonal Rule

This picture was taken on September 8th, 2010. It was on monochrome settings and it was taken by my house on the dirt road.
                                                              Corrected.

There wasn't much I could do to this photo actually. So what I did is used the clone stamp and stamped out some of the pebbles that were to big. I also used some curves to this one. The output was 63 and the input was 95.

I like this one better because in the top picture there is a pebble that is so annoying by his foot. When I took it out, I was able to focus more on my dog Zeus.

Lines

I took this picture on my porch on October 9th. I used vivid for the mode to get color of the wood.
                 
                                            Corrected picture

This one took a little bit of work. But I used to clone stamp to get rid of the:

Bucket

The Rake

The Snowmobile.

I also took the shadow out from the lower right hand corner.

I like this picture the best because it's not so cluttered with noises that get in the way. Plus, you can focus more on the wood then you do the other things. It's lines because it just goes down straight and it just focuses on the railing on the deck.

Color Replacements

This picture was taken on September 29th, 2010. It was taken on Auto in the school teachers parking lot.

Edited

This is the edited one. I used the magic want and color replacement I changed it to orange and the replacement is -10 +4 +8. I like the edited one better because I like the darkness in the orange yet it still has light to it. Also, you see a no parking sign all the time and it's yellow. I like to see it in different colors. I think it blends in better with the parking lot.

Straight Shot VS. Angled Shot

This picture was taken on October 2nd at 3:02 P.M. in my front yard. The mode I took it on was portrait.

This picture was taken on October 2nd at 3:02 P.M. in my front yard at a different angle. The mode setting this was taken on was portrait.

This is the edited angle shot. I cropped the picture and changed the Contrast/Brightness. The Brightness is -8 and the Contrast is 9. Then, I added color balance to +13, +30, -3. I like this picture better because the pumpkins were to far away and I made the pumpkins brighter because it was to dim.