Before & After

Before & After — Flashback Harry Picture

November 10, 2011 By Johanna Leave a Comment

Monica at Pixel Perfect Blog hosted the Before & After blog hop for more than a year. I’m very excited to start hosting it here!

Here’s how it works:

Whether you’re an amateur, hobby or pro photographer, this blog hop is for everyone.

Choose only one picture for your entry. I know we sometimes get excited about sharing but how can we judge the most favorite when you have multiple pictures.
Post your straight out of camera version and then your edited image.
If you’d like, share what program you used, and what steps you took to achieve your after.
Blog hops are more fun when you visit other blogs and share some comment love.
When you link up, link to your before and after entry, not to your main blog page.
Be sure to link back to this post in your post.

Even though this picture is only from June, I can’t get over how different he looks now. This picture is a little baby, when these days I’ve got a little boy on my hands!

Before:

After:

Shot with a Canon 5D + 50mm.
Edited in Lightroom 3.
I didn’t have to do much. Adjusted white balance, lowered the exposure, upped the blacks and brightness. Bumped the vibrance and saturation a touch and sharpened.

Do you have a before and after to share? Link up below!

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Before & After — Canon Rebel Edition

November 3, 2011 By Johanna Leave a Comment

So at the State Fair back in September, my Canon 5D had an unfortunate encounter with a leaky sippy cup. It hasn’t worked since (sob!), and while I do plan to send it in to Canon, I also managed to get rid of the box in some cleaning/purging fit, and who has time to even go to the post office?

So in the meantime, I’ve had to go back to my old Rebel. (Which I am very grateful to still have.)

I’ve had to get used to a crop sensor again (the 5D is full frame). The Rebel lets in less light and creates a lot more noise when shooting at higher ISOs, but it does make for some good before and after examples.

Before:

After:

The after is still very noisy, but it was really underexposed to begin with, and the kid is so cute, who cares?

{I am thankful for …}

3. Being able to capture simple moments and make them forever memories.

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Before & After — First in 2011

April 7, 2011 By Johanna 6 Comments

The last time I participated in Pixel Perfect’s Before & After Blog Hop was the day before Harry was born.

It is strange, now, to think about me sitting at home that Thursday night, blogging about photography, totally unaware that several states away a young woman was in labor with a child she would ask us to parent.

But she was and she did and we are.

And these days, he is my primary focus. Of both my lens and my life.

I was looking through some older files for a picture to choose for today’s blog hop and found this one from February.

I assume I passed it by before because it was underexposed*, and because there was a similar shot the frame before that I did end up editing.

(*Ironically so was my last Before & After submission. It’s not a habit, really. I’m usually of guilty of exposing incorrectly in the other direction!)

I’m glad I went back to it: