Before and After: Summer Garden 2018

I have not been out taking photos like I want with all the rain and work has got me run down. Too much work, not enough people. So, I am posting a shot from last year that was taken at The Brown Family Environmental Center outside of Gambier, Ohio. Like all my editing of lately, the editing was done in ON1 Photo Raw.

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After editing in ON1 Photo Raw.

Before editing in ON1 Photo Raw.

Before and After: Bee Flower Garden

Shot from The Brown Family Environmental Center near Gambier, Ohio. Editing done in ON1 Photo Raw 2019.

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After editing in ON1 Photo Raw.

Before editing in ON1 Photo Raw.

Before and After: Bees of Black & White

I find I am enjoying using ON1 Photo Raw for creating black and white images. The textures, borders, lens blur, etc. allows me to be creative in the process. Here is an example from a shot I took at the Brown Family Environmental Center near Gambier, Ohio.

Editing
I started with a Tone Enhancer filter to add some contrast to the photo followed by a Black & White filter. To add more more detail contrast, I added aDynamic Contrast filter and added some film grain with the Film Grain filter. Then I added a film texture I found somewhere online. A Split Tone filter was used to add a very small amount of color to the photo. Another Tone Enhancer was applied but only to the background to darken it up so the bees and flower in the foreground stand out more. A Lens Blur then was added to blur the background. Photo was finished off with simple white border.

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After editing in ON1 Photo Raw.

Before editing in ON1 Photo Raw.

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.

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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.

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.

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After editing in ON1 Photo Raw 2019.

Before editing in ON1 Photo Raw 2019.

Before and After: Oh Little Pond

One of the little features in The Brown Family Environmental Center just outside Gambier, Ohio, is a cute little pond. The pond consist of fish and frogs, and there are chairs to sit back and enjoy the day.

Editing:
Using once again ON1 Photo Raw 2019, I started with a Color Enhancer filter with the Foliage preset to make the greens pop out. Then I applied a Color Adjustment filter to darken the green colors followed by a Photo Filter using the Tobacco preset. Next comes a rounded Lens Blur and a bokeh Texture. I used a Curves filter to add some contrast before finishing it off with a film style border.

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After editing in ON1 Photo Raw 2019.

Before editing in ON1 Photo Raw 2019

Before and After: Garden Lilly

A picture from The Brown Family Environmental Center outside Gambier, Ohio. The little pond in the garden features lillies, gold fish, and toads. Editing was done with ON1 Photo Raw 2018.

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After editing in ON1 Photo Raw 2018.

Before editing in ON1 Photo Raw 2018.

Before and After: Red Flower and Butterfly

One of the great things about visiting The Brown Family Environmental Center is seeing the busy bees and the butterflies flying from one flower to the next. I am still working on shooting bees and butterflies and I do at times get lucky at getting a good shoot like this one.

Editing:
The editing was done using ON1 Photo Raw. I started with a LUTs called Elton followed by a Color Enhancer in which I boosted the reds and oranges with saturation. I boosted them even more with a Color Adjustment and added a slight S-curve with the Curves filter. Then added a Big Softy Vignette with a Light Leak 5 Texture. I applied a Tilt Shift Lens Blur and set at an angle. Finally finished it off with simple Letter Box Black border.

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After editing in ON1 Photo Raw.

Before editing in ON1 Photo Raw.

Before and After: 41 Days until Spring!

Okay, I am done with winter! Until spring gets here, I just keep thinking warm thoughts. Here is a before and after from The Brown Family Environmental Center garden to help with those warm thoughts.

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After editing.

Before editing.

Black and White: Brown Family Environmental Center

Outside of Gambier, Ohio, and campus of Kenyon College, is The Brown Family Environmental Center for education and research pertaining to the environment and nature. At BFEC, there is this nice little building in the gardens. I used the Tonality CK plugin in Adobe Photoshop to convert the photo into black and white and then used applied a Color Lookup called Fall Colors and changed the Opacity to 49%. I believe it came out pretty good!

Btw, Tonality CK is no longer available since Macphun became Skylum and all their attention is now on Luminar. I loved Tonality, it was a great application for just creating black and whites. Sigh.

#blackandwhite #photoediting #bfec #adobephotoshop

Before photo editing.

After photo editing.

Before and After: Busy Bee

The Brown Family Environmental Center, located outside Gambier, Ohio, has a nice little garden to visit, especially if you are riding your bike along the Kokosing Gap Trail. Late summer, you can find these busy little guys buzzing around from flower to flower.

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After editing.

Before editing.