The weather was hot, the company was great, the food was fantastic (the best 6.95 salad I’ve ever eaten), the grandbaby (not mine) was adorable- and the photos? Wellll, not so wonderful.
Each outside table at the Petaluma restaurant where we ate was decorated with a beautiful red kalanchoe in a cute pot- so I focused on that for my photo of the day. When I was editing tonight, I just couldn’t get the colors to look right- the red flowers with the green leaves looked like Christmas to me. The more I looked at the photos, the more I disliked them. I tried a sepia processing with and without texture- too bland. I ended up with a simple black and white conversion- and called it DONE!
But wait- the day wasn’t over! After coming back to it a couple hours later, I still didn’t like it- especially the composition and the lack of contrast in the flower petals. I went back to the color version, changed the crop, and did an HDR cheat on it (only 1 photo with 3 exposures), which helped some.
So. . . it’s 11:00 now and I have wasted entirely too much time on a photo that I don’t really like. There is something to be said for getting a good shot SOOC, Carol!
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