Hey everyone,

Hope you are doing fine. In this blog post I wanted to show you a before and after. This is not very spectacular but every now and then I feel like I want to do this. I find “before & after” posts of other photographers very interesting myself.

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Hey everyone. Yet again I’m posting the same image before and after any editing.

This is the out-of-the-camera image.

The things I saw needed to be changed were:

1. Horizon not straight
2. Boring sky
3. Too many stones lying around in the foreground giving the image a cluttered look
4. Under exposed

What I did like was the stone in the middle. I thought that one could serve as the main subject. I came up with the following solution.

Feel free to give me your thoughts on the final (and the org.) images. Thanks for stopping by.

I thought I should share with you a before and after image. This is taken in place called Ön in Malmö. A long time a go this was an industrial area but has now turned into a place for nice apartment buildings etc.

This is how the shot came out directly from the camera. No changes to it. I’ve just converted it to jpg in Lightroom.

There are a couple of things that I think can be improved. I can see it has potential but it needs a bit of work.

1. The horizon and the bottom part of the structure is bent because of the wide lens.
2. The right side of the concrete bend has some kind of fence which unbalances the image.
3. I put the horizon a little too high. I’d like more sky.
4. The bottom part of the image creates depth but the sky stops you or at least doesn’t convey the same feeling.
5. Contrast, color and exposure need to be corrected.

Here is the final image. The issues above have been fixed.

I think the sky could go darker still. However I don’t want the all of the sky to be darker than the sea so I need to be careful.

I’m amazed by how much can be accomplished in LR and PS. The out-of-the-camera images are very flat and desaturated and this for a good reason –> to give us photographers the possibility to make sure the images look like you pre-visualized.

So, to all of you still shooting in jpg. Let go! Start exploring the raw way of doing things.