Some days things just don't turned as planned on the Photography front.
Today was one of those days.
I had about 90 seconds to snap something that might fly for the challenges, and that was it. It wasn't pretty. The pictures weren't pretty.
Hours later as I sat down to look at them I thought... now what?
Originals
But first, the originals...
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| Zachary: "Oh no, Mom shut the screen door. We're locked outside. Ahhhh!!!!" |
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| Zachary: "Wait... maybe not." |
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| Zachary: "Hi, Mom!" |
Yup, that's our "doggie dog" - a screen door with the screen unattached on one corner. Works great, and that extra "feature" of flap-ability didn't cost a dime being a gift from Beau, many moons ago. On those rare occasions when we have the slider open but don't want the dogs going out we set a baby gate across the opening.
Dog Blog Post #1037
April Showers Bring Zachary, sticking his head through the screen
Door, hoping I'll throw the ball.
Photography Assignment
Daily Dog Challenge 547. "April Showers Bring..."
Our Daily Challenge - Apr 30, 2013 - "Windows and Doors"
Fun With Filters
And what did end up with?
These two are the last photo, above...
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| Colored Pencil Sketch |
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| Color Explosion |
And for the rest the originals were so bad I didn't even upload them...
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| Explosion |
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| Burnt Colors(?) Filter after a fair bit of extra sharpening/fiddeling in Aperture |
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| Brush Strokes Vivid applied on the above shot |
The five pictures, above, all went from my camera to Aperture 3 (RAW conversation to jpeg + auto enhancements + reducing in size) on my desktop computer, to Previewer (for watermark) then whisked off to the iPhone where I used PhotoStudio app to apply various filters (see captions below photo for principle filter used) then sent back to my desktop to upload to Flickr.
While PhotoStudio will upload to Flickr directly, I don't have the app configured to allow it hence the extra trip through the ether to get to the desktop machine.
Was it worth it?
For those shots?
Nope.
But I did learn a lot.
The usual disclaimers: I didn't get anything from anybody related to anything above. The opinions expressed are mine. The money spent purchasing the stuff was mine (although I believe PhotoStudio is free - for everybody) and the input and output pictures are mine. :)
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