Editing Photos for Someone Else

There are all sorts of programs that edit photos. I still use the program that is already available on iPads and iPhones. It generally does a good job. But I also use the Camera+ App and sometimes the Focus app. Since all of my photos are taken with my iPhone everything is very handy. Recently I had to edit someone else’s photos for the weekly photo challenge that I belong to. That was actually the challenge. So he sent me three photos. And I sent him three photos. I took a lot of time getting them all just right. For whatever reason none of them seemed very crisp or clear in spite of the fact that he has an iPhone13 that takes better photos than my iPhone 6Plus. Because none of them were that great he sent me another one. So I tried again and added a filter to give the image some interest. I wasn’t thrilled with any of them. When I received mine I was struck by the way someone else interprets what I would have imagined. In the end it is an interesting exercise. Now it will be interesting to see if I - and he - get more or less comments based on someone else’s work. In the end it’s all about the imagination behind the photo and less about the editing? I guess we will find out. 

Editing Photo Images

I have never taken a photography class, but I like taking photos. I remember my dad’s complicated manual 35mm camera. He took a lot of slides and we watched them projected on the wall. I was the first to get a swinger instant camera, and after that I always had some sort of camera - including the first digital camera that used discs and the latest was a Sony. But when the iPhone came along I now only use it for everything, including the weekly 52Frames photo challenge. Most photos require some sort of editing and I usually go with the “auto” option. But sometimes it’s worth making finer adjustments depending on the final look one might be after. Last week I practiced manually changing two images that were recently taken - one from Great Falls and the other was a “horizon” image. I wanted to make the River more obvious and bring out the green color; the other I wanted to make the sky more brilliant so the Washington memorial stood out more. There are several options - from exposure, to tint, to shadows, to vibrance, etc. Right now I’m just adjusting at whim. One of these days I need to study the names and definitions to see what the impact is supposed to be rather than rely on the here and there approach. It really does make a difference to the final outcome. So I put that photo activity on my list of things to do. There is always something to learn.