This week’s r/WeeklyPhotos photo challenge was color harmony x composition.
As someone whose photography is color harmony on crack (I mean, seriously, just look at my florals) I found this past week’s challenge actually challenging. I think the major reason is of course because of the season – I’d say my specialty is definitely floral photography, so when there’s no flowers to photograph, I’m out of my comfort zone.
But I took to the streets on Thursday, even got REALLY out of my comfort zone and photographed things in stores – which I’m always really leery about doing because I don’t want to get in trouble for “taking pictures of merchandise”.
Anyway, one of my stops of Cranbrook House and Gardens, which is more in my realm of comfort. I shot some neat photos of foliage and things like that, but I got a couple shots of a fallen piece of a pine tree against the red bricks in the wooded fountain across from the main entrance of the house.
The original photo is vastly underwhelming, and I’ll post it below. But I knew when I took the shot that it had potential post-processing, and I’m happy that I was right.
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I love the final photo, it is very creative! How do you edit your pictures? I’m also doing a photo challenge, I love it so far but it’s so tricky!
Omg I just saw this comment. Thank you! I edit my photos in Photoshop by playing around with color levels. At least for this photo that’s what I did. I like using preset curves and actions as well.