Finishing the Job

A good friend, Ewen, who is a professional photographer has written a great blog post “Your photography ….  Finish the job”

Your Photography…FINISH THE JOB!

His argument is that once you have taken a good photograph then it needs to be finished.  Ewen saw one of my images on Twitter and he messaged me saying the following: –

That one tweet led me into the world of the British Tech Network and I joined their Photo League.  It is led by Ewen and you submit your monthly photographs and receive constructive comments.  I have submitted my first few photographs and already benefited from the professional advice on how not only to compose but finish your image.  I was still intrigued about the finishing of the image and so I spent a day with Ewen at his studio.  He took me through several simple processes that make your images stand out.  A few simple exercises cleaned the “grey crud” from my images and then with some sharpening process I could see that my images immediately benefitted from his advice.  Here are a few images which have been processed in Photoshop and they have been enhanced.

My tips from that meeting with Ewen –

  • check your exposure,
  • add a touch of saturation,
  • look at the image and a touch of intelligent sharpening all add up to finishing your image.

Here are a few examples of checking your pictures and finishing them off.

Example 1 – this is a picture taken at Chesterton Windmill before Christmas.

 

The following is my attempt at processing 

This next one is finished  by following some simple rules and a bit of creativity.

These next two are the before and after with a touch of blur.

……and that picture that first made me realise that there is more to just taking the photograph.  Well here it is with a few added touches. 


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