Before and After: Meet My Little Friend!

One of nature's friends can be found at The Brown Family Environmental Center are frogs. Just enjoying the summer sun in the garden's small pond. I was lucky that he posed for the camera.

Editing
Using ON1 Photo Raw 2019, I started with a simple HDR Look filter followed by a Black & White filter. I added a little Dynamic Contrast before applying a Tone Enhancer filter. To give the photo some depth, I added a Lens Blue with a tilt shift setting and through in some vignetting. Then finished it off with a black letterbox border.

#beforeandafter #photoediting #bfec #on1photoraw

After editing in ON1 Photo Raw.

Before editing in ON1 Photo Raw.

Before and After: Black and White Flower

Anyone can take a beautiful picture of a flower these days, but to have your photo stand out, you have to do something different. With this simple shot of a flower, I used ON1 Photo Raw to make it different by using a black and white LUTs, some Dynamic Contrast, and add a texture with a emulsion border.

#beforeandafter #blackandwhite #flower #on1photoraw

After editing in ON1 Photo Raw.

Before editing in ON1 Photo Raw.

Before and After: Bee kissing the Flower

At times that I visit The Brown Family Environmental Center, I try to capture bees and butterflies with my Canon 5D Mark III and using my Canon EF 70-300mm 1.4-5.6 IS zoom lens. I am not good at it but sometimes I am lucky to get a good shot like this one.

Editing
Starting with a LUTs filter in ON1 Photo Raw 2019, I used the Thoreau LUT followed by a Color Enhancer filter to make the colors vibrant and warm. Next I applied a Sharpening filter to apply a little sharpening and a Tone Enhancer to bring in the highlights and darken the shadows a little. A texture that I downloaded from ON1 called 2LO Color Burn1-hardlight, part of a Color Burn Overlays collection, was added to the photo. A vignette came next and finish off with a Emulsion border.

#beforeandafter #photoediting #bfec #nature #garden

After editing in ON1 Photo Raw 2019.

Before editing in ON1 Photo Raw 2019.

Summer in the Park!

Finally feeling less wintery around here! Can not wait to start visiting my favorite local city park!

You can check out my favorite local city park at this link:
https://www.arielfoundationpark.org/

#citypark #arielfoundationpark #landscapephotography

Pond at Ariel-Foundation Park.

Before and After: Lazy River

River photo shoot in fall 2018 at the Honey Run Falls outside Millwood, Ohio.

Editing
After doing some basic raw editing using ON1 Photo Raw 2019, I moved to the Effects panel and started with a Color Enhancer filter to make the colors vibrant. Next I used the Color Adjustment filter to bring the blues out in the sky and a warm polarizer filter from the Photo Filter to bump the warmth fall colors. Then I used a texture to darken the river and a simple curves adjustment for contrast. Finally, finished it off with a film border.

#beforeandafter #photoediting #landscapephotography #honeyrunfalls

After editing in ON1 Photo Raw 2019.

Before editing in ON1 Photo Raw 2019.

Before and After: Welcome!

Along the Kokosing Gap Trail outside of Gambier, Ohio is The Brown Family Environmental Center used for educational purposes on the environment. Biker riders and hikers can enter the gardens at the center by way of this bridge. I shoot this photo using my iPhone 6s Plus and used ON1 Photo Raw for editing.

Editing
I started the editing with a LUTs called LUT Wild West and then applied a simple s-curve in the Curves filter to increase the contrast. I added a Sunshine filter to brighten the photo up. A Tobacco color Photo Filter was applied to give it that brown tone. Then I threw in some Film Grain and added a vintage stain texture I found online. Next comes a Vignette filter followed by a second Curves for further adjustments. Finally, finished off with a sloppy border.

#beforeandafter #photoediting #bfec #on1photoraw

After editing in ON1 Photo Raw 2019.

Before editing in ON1 Photo Raw 2019.

Before and After: Honey Run Park Forest

Editing a shoot I took in fall of 2018 at Honey Run Fall outside Millwood, Ohio, using ON1 Photo Raw 2019.

Editing:
Starting with a Vintage Matte LUTs followed by a Tone Enhancer filter to add contrast. With the Photo Filter, I applied an orange tone and to give it more of an fall style, I used the Fall preset in the Color Enhancer filter. A postcard texture was then added and a round Lens Blur was applied. Then comes a Vignette and finish it off with a sloppy border.

#beforeandafter #photoediting #honeyrunfalls

After editing in ON1 Photo Raw 2019.

Before editing in ON1 Photo Raw 2019.

Before and After: In The Army Now

Taking a photo from 2016 shot during a D-Day reenactment, I converted the photo into a vintage black and white using ON1 Photo Raw 2019. I started with the HDR filter, followed by a Black and White filter. To add some sepia color to the photo, I used the Split Tone filter and the Photo Filter. Next comes a film texture and a little lens blur to the top of the photo. A Tone Enhancer was applied to tone down the whites in the bottom half of the photo. A second Tone Enhancer filter was added to brighten the top half of the photo. Another lens blur filter to blur the outer edges and finished off with a camera border.

#beforeandafter #photoediting #vintage #dday

After editing in ON1 Photo Raw.

Before editing in ON1 Photo Raw.

Goodbye to Google+

Tomorrow, April 2nd, 2019, will be a sad day for me. Google will be shutting down its social media site Google+. G+ was the first social media site I joined. I joined it soon after it came out of beta testing and enjoyed it. I am going to really miss it. Sigh.

#goodbyegoogleplus

The final screenshot of my G+ page on April 1, 2019.