Mike DelGaudio

At the Rivers edge, originally uploaded by delgaudm.

This was a picture I took over the summer. At first I was only lukewarm on it, But after applying a little Picasa magic, I think it is much better. The key for making this a better picture for me was to apply a few subtle changes.

1. I cropped the picture using the Perfect Square Cropping methods (which is holding down Shift while you drag a cropping box)
2. I brought up the saturation just a bit to enhance the separation between the sky and clouds.
3. I sharpened once to enhance the tips of the tree.
4. I added a little soft focus around the tree. This smoothed out some camera noise and some artifacts from the sharpening.

So there you have it, a few subtle changes, and the picture as a whole is better.

[tags]Mike DelGaudio, Photo, Editing[/tags]