Cropping. I started taking photos when it was still analog. Framing a shot was a necessary for amateur photographers without access to a dark room. These habits are hard to break. However, sometimes I cannot get in a proper position or I’m walking with others and don’t have the leisure time to frame a shot properly. I have to consciously tell myself that “take the shot now, worry about the exact framing later”.

These palms look better as a trio, without the distraction of the fronds on the upper left side.

Changing a colour photo to a monochrome one. It’s an obvious editing choice and can be very effective. I am usually hesitant to do it on floral photos because flowers take much of their character from flowers. But it can work, defining structure, enhancing texture and showing the play of light on a bloom.

Although – it depends what you want to highlight, that’s why I am showing two versions of the same photo.

This bottlebrush is a case in point, I think.

Vignette. An editing technique I’ve discovered only fairly recently (aka the last two years or so) is applying a vignette. It was difficult to find an example because it is something I usually do already when taking a photo (because the effect is better with my camera than with my editing program), hence the photos are the same subject but not the same shot.

Not quite fulfilling the specification, I guess.

Lens-Artists Challenge: One Photo Edited

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