Another Edit

I decided to play around with the photo for the Edit Me Challenge again this week.  How'd I do?

Here's the original:

And here's my edit:

And here's what I did in Lightroom:

• Adjusted white balance to warm it up
• Brightened it up a smidge by increasing exposure
• Applied the Lily Blue Spring Color preset.  This gave the colors a richer tone.
• Applied Clickin' Moms Amber Preset.  This gave it a matte effect and desaturated some of the color.
• Then I messed around with the points in the Tone Curve.  I don't always like how matte presets make my photos look, so I usually do some adjusting.
• I really wanted the berries to pop, so I increased the saturation of the reds and oranges.
• Cropped to follow the Rule of Thirds.  I also wanted to keep that branch at the top of the frame because I liked how it drew my eye in towards the berries.
• Sharpened for web.

I played around with adding a texture to this in Photoshop, but ultimately didn't like the effect it was having on the photo so stuck with my Lightroom-only edit.  I really love how it turned out--the bokeh in the background almost has an oil-painting look about it.  Very pretty!


 

xoxo