This is the same image as my previous post, but this time it's been processed-or optimized-in photoshop by Chris. You may not be able to see the difference, but it's there. Chris and I try to process and image a day together, because I'm still leaning the ins and outs of photoshop. Normally we use one of his images, but this was a good exercise for both of us because for Chris, this image holds no emotional attachment, so he can look at it more objectively. What I learned was: when you go to process an image, you should ask yourself two things. 1.) What do I want to say? There is a reason you took this picture, that should come out for the viewer. 2.) How do I want to lead the viewer's eye through the image? These questions are connected because your viewer learns what you are saying by what they see. When he processed this image, Chris used light and dark (the eye will go to light areas before dark areas), contrast (the eye will go to high contrast areas before low contrast), sharpness (the eye will go to high sharpness areas before low sharpness areas), focus ( the eye will go to areas in focus first), and saturation (the eye will go to highly saturated areas first) to guide the eye. One thing I had to remember while doing this exercise is to not compare myself to Chris. You should never compare yourself to others, everyone is different, everyone is always learning, and everyone is at their own level.
-Teresa
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