Day #97 @ Photography Project 365

Spring is definitely setting in and I tried to capture its essence in this shot - from my apartment. I took an almost identically composed shot in the earlier part of this year when it was still winter. The dark bark of the tree against the bright walkway is still as captivating now as it was back then. Additionally this time, we have the blossoming flowers of spring, which gives the shot a more cheerful and pleasant setting.

In Lightroom, I increased the exposure to almost wash out the otherwise grayish walkway. I also increased the blacks to give the tree a dark tone that I wanted. Finally, I increased contrast further by adjusting its histogram curve to be more S-shaped.

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Day #96 @ Photography Project 365

My wife recently ordered a Good News Bible from Amazon for a friend of hers and I have it photographed here.

To the get the red lighting effect, I used a colored flash filter - a red one. The result: a dark room effect.

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Day #95 @ Photography Project 365

My wife was in the city today to get herself some niceties and pictured here in one of them - makeup.

I used one of the built-in presets in Lightroom to enhance this shot. I wanted to give it a 1920's look and feel, so I applied the antique preset. It made the photo warmer and brighter, almost to the point of overexposure. I guess most shots taken in the 1920's weren't perfectly due to technical limitation of that time but today we perceive some of these flaws as unique and almost enviable characteristics of photography.

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