Macro ... Edited

Welcome back to the edit version of Shoot & Edit/Good to WOW!  Thank you all for your sweet comments you left on Monday's SOOC post!  You are all very generous with your kind words and I am honored and humbled by each and every one!


To answer a couple questions I received ... no, I don't typically use a tripod when taking macro photos.  I manually focus and then move my camera around until I get the focus I want, so a tripod just wouldn't work.  :)  And the macro filters I got were very inexpensive ones I found on Amazon.  They are a set of 4 for about $12.  Much more affordable than a macro lens, although I have one on my Christmas list.  :)

I was pretty pleased with my SOOC shots so I didn't do too much as far as editing goes with them.  Just a few tweaks in ACR then some sharpening, unless specified otherwise.  Although for a few I wanted to get a little creative, so I played around with some actions, frames, and textures.

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I added a couple Kim Klassen textures to this one ... Aurora and Sweettart ... both at 50% then painted off the focal point at 30%.

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For the above photo, I also corrected the white balance.  The SOOC looked a little green/blue to me.

Then I used Katie Lloyd's Vintage Polaroid frame.

Very slight adjustments done to the berry photo.  I loved the SOOC.

For the gerber daisy, after the adjustments in ACR, I ran Pioneer Woman's Lovely action.

I did very little editing to the corn tassel photo.  I really liked how it turned out sooc.  

Make sure you head over to Ashley's to see more great macro photos!




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One more thing that I am super excited about ... the photo of the paddle boarder that is in my header and won the Favorite Photo for October contest on Through a Photographer's Eyes was selected as the winner in a local contest I entered!!!  I received an email this afternoon.  I will receive a monetary prize and have my photo featured in our county's 2012 Visitor's Guide!  Isn't that cool?!?!


Hope you are all having a spectacular Thursday!  The kids had a half day of school today and have tomorrow off, so we're hoping for a fun, relaxing weekend.

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