Lens-Artists Challenge #294 – Before and After

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I will go straight to what John wrote” One of my favorite things is to take the images I captured from my camera and put them in a workflow through two or three different photo editing applications”. I love doing this too. He asks us to feature three or four images in your gallery that you tweaked for whatever reason and the original image out of the camera. Here are my Before and After

I was going through some old photos, and this corner in an old building with light coming in from above, the texture of the walls set my creativity to flow and edited it for this challenge. With this first photo I am giving you more details to explain the edits I did.

This is the one I added light and contrast, texture, and clarity. I also added some vibrancy but used less saturation. I toned down highlights, lessened blacks and shadows. I did not change the composition.
This is the one I added light and much more contrast, texture, and clarity. I also added some vibrancy towards yellows and added orange to the shadows. I toned down highlights but not as much as in previous version, used more blacks and shadows. I did not change the composition.
For this image I converted the original image to black and white. I did not touch the exposure or contrast. I turned down the blacks, added dehaze and texture. I turned the colors all down except purple and magenta that I added a bit
Original photo, no edits.

This shot I took while running to the seaside to capture the sunset at Páfos in 2011. The original is very bland, but with my newfound editing skills I was able to bring the warm tones of the moment into the photo.

I adjusted the exposure and contrast down as well as the highlights and blacks. I toned down the texture, but added clarity and dehaze. Touch of added vibrance and saturation. Added touch of orange to highlight and midtones. Then inspired by John I changed the sky and did lots of little fixes and had an enhanced version, that I then converted to black and white. I have very rarely changed skies, because I try mostly keep it real – well the way I see it – or in this case remember seeing it.

This is a street view from Vancouver that I converted to monochrome – I am a big fan of B&W images. The last one is trying to replicate the style lots of movies and TV shows now use, with teal and orange colors. In both edits I have also edited the exposure, contrast and shadows and light.

Original photo from the camera.
Vancouver Street View – Monochrome
Vancouver Street view – movie style. With teal and orange tones

Last week we enjoyed the inspiration from Sofia – Water motions , it was a theme I really enjoyed. I saw so many wonderful posts about it. Next week Donna is bringing us a new challenge, looking forward to seeing what she comes up with. Until then, keep smiling ☺

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38 thoughts on “Lens-Artists Challenge #294 – Before and After”

  1. Ritva, I always enjoy your style of editing. I hadn’t noticed the teal and orange versions elsewhere. I like the look. I’ll have to try some experiments.

  2. Always amazed at the difference but I don’t always like it. My favourite is the black and white Vancouver shot- really superb 🤗🖤

  3. Fun response Ritva. I agree with Jo about the B&W Vancouver. I preferred your original and the B&W in the old building which is a great subject!

  5. Wow, Ritva! I have to borrow a page from your book. These are fantastic edits. I can’t figure out if I have a favorite. However, some do stand out. First off, the monochromes are superb. Then, next I’ll go with the warm tones. Love those photos.

  6. hello ritva

    i like the way you chose your pictures for the theme, especially the first four and the last three.

    many greetings robert

  10. Vey nice. Ritva. I love that you gave us various edits to bring life to your photos. Anne said it best. You shine! I especially love the green and orange changes to the building . Your feature was nice too. With different edits I noticed the people differently.

  11. Lovely! I like the B&W conversions. In the first one, the addition of light looks good to me. The teal and orange work – that I didn’t know of before – looks very artistic 🙂.

  12. All your edits are really effective. I like the way you have of enhancing texture in your shots. The B&W shot of the empty building is probably my favourite but I like both B&W and added sky versions of your coastal sunset too 🙂

  13. Wonderful Ritva, I like the way you did several edits to the one image. I remember a challenge many years ago from Robyn Crosby, I think that was her name to do one image four ways. You got some great results.

  16. You excel again, Ritva – love your edits to the full. I do have favourites though – as you say B&W shines, but also your warmer tones. The Vancouver teal and orange is a hit with me!

      1. Well, I love playing with for example double exposures, but this task I feel is of a more serious kind. It matters how they come out, which makes me a bit nervous…

  17. Ritva, I loved having this opportunity to see how you create that so unique style that you have. It made me try to be a bit bolder too 🙂

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