"Editing in Bridge"
For the first assignment I chose to photograph a trophy because it provided a lot
of different, interesting angles I could play with. I chose this image to edit becaus
e I thought it was my best one, but also one that with a little brightening and added contrast could look even better. The lighting at the time
of the shot was very dull and I wanted to see what I could do in Bridge to make the photo seem more vibrant, without over doing it.
The first edit I made was with the white balance. My white balance was set to Auto while I was shooting, but when I clicked the auto white balance in the camera raw edits through Bridge it lessened the warm tones in my photo and brought out cooler, blue tones, which in my opinion looks nicer. I then brightened the picture slightly by adjusting the exposure by +0.50. I also wanted to provide some contrast and I first
started this edit by bringing out the black in the creases of the angel's wings. I adjusted "blacks" by +10. This also made her wings look more golden. I then moved the contrast bar from +8 to +16 to add a tiny bit more "pop". I cropped the image slightly. I wanted to keep a little bit of the sparkly post on the left in the image to frame her, but I didn't want the brightness of the sparkles to overshadow the subject.
Good work on this image Nikole. You brought out the delicate colors and texture on the figure in a way that brings more interest to the subject. My only recommendation for this image would be to crop out the left portion of the frame to reduce conflict between the subject and the background.
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