Stacks is the topic for today.
My house is filled with photo ops- books, papers, laundry, boxes, dishes etc. etc. etc. I chose one of my more photogenic stacks- some little Japanese bowls, given to me by a student.
After I uploaded this, I decided to do a quick re-edit, to give it a matte look, really popular on the blogs and in clickin moms right now. I used an action I downloaded from the clickin moms’ forum. Every other time I have tried it, I have ended up going back to a quick, clean edit instead. This time I think I like it.
The photo below is the one with the matte edit. Which one do YOU like better?
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Love the stacks. Great composition. I like the first one. To me, when I see them together the matte version appears to have a film over it, which I guess, it does. When I got the e-mail notification, the matte version was featured and I loved it but after seeing them together, I prefer the other.
I agree with Carol, prefering the first picture. The bowls sparkle and the colors are vivid.
However, if I hadn’t seen the first photo, I would have marveled at the photo with the layer because
it looks like a painting.