Black & White Photo Results

This week's photo assignment was inspired by the 1946's film It's a Wonderful Life. Below you will find some of the results so far. If you'd like to see an image larger, just click on it.

Photo by Elaine 

Photo by Leslie C 

 Photo by Lori

Photo by Ania

 Photo by BreAnna

Winter Driving in South Dakota

I'm not sure what the weather is like where everyone else lives, but here in South Dakota it can be a bit unpredictable. A week and a half ago we had tons of snow, yet just yesterday it was 60 degrees and sunny! I wish it would just choose a season already! When it does snow during the winter, though, I always find it interesting to hear "out-of-towners" discuss the snowy conditions (whether it's a small flurry of snowflakes or a full on blizzard).

One thing I know for sure is that our little guy won't let a little snow stop him from "driving" around:

Now if I could just get this car started...

Okay, here we go...

@*&#!!! Stuck in the #@*!&% snow!!

Walking it is...

I hope you all are staying warm!

BreAnna

Post Processing from Greta

I took these and had done some edits pre-tutorial.  My standard edits were to adjust the WB (cooler more to the blue end), upped brightness a touch, upped blacks to almost 20, desaturated slightly.  Actually I desaturated first per MeRa's tips on whitening holiday lights.  After the tutorial, I worked on the eyes.  I desaturated the whites to get rid of bloodshot, dodged eye highlights and burned the iris edges.  Finally I brushed in definition around the face features.

This is one of my holiday card images -- which I'll try to post soon.

-Greta

Noelle's Post Processing Results!

Here are some pics I took of my nephews this past weekend and post-processed using Leslie Chang's great tips!

Top left- clean edit

Top right- warm b&w

Bottom left- is a a free preset called light bright colors from MCP actions

Bottom right- split tones

-Noelle

P.S. Don't forget to "like" Noelle's newly created facebook page, Noelle Soroka Photography

Post Processing Results

This week we are starting off with a post processing result from Claudia. She had a little down time while she was in the hospital with her son, so she was able to send in this amazing photo: 

"This was one I did recently.  I did a black and white conversion because the original had a terrible red glow on Michael's face from his shirt.  Then I added a vignette (something I had never done before the workshop).  I felt like it really added to the drama of the picture of my son Michael." - Claudia L.

Claudia, this is such a beautiful photo, as I'm sure everyone will agree! To everyone else: don't forget to email me your results ...or any other post you'd like to see on our blog.

Welcome!

I just want to take a quick moment to welcome everyone to our new blog. This will be a place we can share success stories, reviews, ideas and more. This is not meant to replace our facebook group, but rather give us a platform to share in more detail. I had such a great time at the workshop with all of you and I've been enjoying sharing with you so far. 

This will be a group effort, as we will all have the opportunity to take turns "posting" for the day. To keep things organized and running smoothly, I ask that everyone send their submissions to breannarenee2@hotmail.com with "Confidence Blog" in the subject line. Don't worry if you'd rather not write a bunch. You can just "show off" some of your latest pictures or simply let us know what's new with your photography! Please also submit your ideas for our photography "assignments" (participation isn't required, but we'd sure like to see what you come up with!).

Please feel free to email me if you have any questions or concerns.

BreAnna