As I am back I just think that at weekends I just have more time stay on steemit and check what happened in last couple of days and every day I see a lot of great photos in there. What I am going to say can sound really silly but what makes me happy in there is the opportunity to participate in the Fix it Friday by @photogames.
I don't have many opportunities to travel abroad, mostly because of money. Actually I have never had any of this kind of opportunities but I still love photography and filmmaking and I am working on what I am able to do! No excuses! Poland is beautiful too! But I hope I will have some chances to travel some countries that I know only from photos(FINGERS CROSSED).
But what does it mean that Fix it Friday makes me happy? It gives me opportunity to at least see some beautiful places, to work on them. I can edit the photo any way I want to and share it with people. I don't cry if someone else win because I already won my prize - I have the raw file that makes me feel that I've been there! So if there are better "editors" than me it's fine. I am happy to see how people interpret the same image. It shows wider perspective of looking at world!
Ok so let's go with images that I edited this week. There are images that I found hard to work with, but I didn't throw them away because hard means that I need to learn how to work with them!
DISCLAIMER: I hope that I won't turn your photo into disaster :)
First picture belongs to @derekkind and it's definitely my favourite picture of this weeks contest. I made rocks more grey so they got more "rock feel" and the water little more aqua. Couple more things and that's what we got :)
Actually even without editing this photo is reeeeeeeeally good.
My second favourite photo is made by @sjarvie5 and it's the lighthouse somewhere in Massachusetts. Damn what a beautiful view... The effect that came out is something like vintage postcard :)
And the 3rd fav is the wedding photo by @vtravels. As I said I really like the WHEAT :D
Fourth photo was shot by @caseygrimley and it's always cool to edit almost black sky, always a challenge to get an intesting sky tint without ruining the quality (hope I passed the test :D)
Fifth picture is made by @bil.prag. I found it semi-tuff, because I don't like autumn, why? Because right after short period of time everything turns into grey... BUT still the colors at autumn are really cool. It's hard to get the yellows and oranges not overcontrasted so they won't look just like bright mess :D and yes, I think my picture is overcontrasted but when I tried to put it down it looked only worse and I couldn't find a way to get it better :D
That's why I like the contest- I can see what other people think and how they edit, so maybe next time I'll get some better ideas based on the inspiration that I get from the other participants.
Next is the city based somewhere in Morocco by @jpphotography. It was hard for me to get right tones of the groundy mountains, because I haven't see any of them in real life so I don't know the most realistic tone for them so I tried to make them something between brown and orange and still not satisfied too much :D
And the last but not least @gabyoraa! This one was hard for me because I didn't have any good idea for editing it. Woman with the pick... so I wen't for the clarity and sharpen to get all the details of dirt exposed more, little twist on the shadows and here it is
PS. I wan't to thank all the photostars that share they raw files so I can have some fun while editing and learning about the photos. I love guys and you're amazing! <3
