After taking a photograph it is usually a good idea to edit to improve it. With editing you can emphasise the colours, textures or subjects you like best in the picture. Here are some of my photographs that I have used iPhoto to manipulate to improve them.
This photo was taken in the Edinburgh train station. I thought the linear quality was interesting but I thought that editing it could make it more effective. I firstly straightened the picture slightly to look more aesthetically pleasing. To make the picture more dramatic, I decided to make it black and white and increasing the contrast. I think the edit was successful because it became more intense and complex.
This picture is of a painted wall in the Edinburgh City Art Center cafe. The original picture had quite dull colours so I decided to intensify the colour and increasing the warmer colours. I thought the rough texture of the wall was really interesting and I wanted to emphasise this aspects of the picture. I increased the definition and contrast and I think the result is very effective.
This photograph was taken outside Victoria Park in Bath. The tree on the left hand side had intense red leaves that didn't show up strongly on camera so I increased the contrast to bring out the sharp colours against the dark shadows. I thought that there was too much of the shadowed side of the tree in the photograph so I cropped out some of the left side and some of the sky because it was grey and dull. I think the final photograph is much more effective than the original because you are more focused on the main subject of the picture and the colours are more intense.
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