Learning more about things you think you don't like is a-okay.

Its funny how we say we don't like things that we really don't know that much about. Or maybe I am the only one who does this, but I doubt it. I have never been a huge fan of photography. It doesn't mean I dont appreciate the photography of others, I would just rather work with other mediums. When I use a camera, its usually to just take silly pictures of things I see out and about, and I don't see the purpose of editing the pictures. After editing some of the photos in this lesson I can see how editing helped a lot of my pictures look much better. 

The original image is of a pile of sticks, glass, bottle caps, and string that was in a driveway of a grain elevator. The bar is across the street to that may be the origin of the bottles. I took the picture with my iphone 6. According to Apple the camera has 8 megapixels. The top picture, which is the origninal, is 2,448 x 3,264 pixels. By multiplying this we get this massive number of 7,990,272 pixels. This number is the image resolution which we round up to make it simpler to 8 megapixels.

I really like all the texture that is visible in the original image, and while editing I wanted to make the texture more visible. For editing we used Pixlr express. The application was simple to use and free. The first thing that I did when editing all my photos was rotate, and adjust using AutoFix. The autofix seemed to adjust the saturation and contrast in a lot of my pictures, sometimes it would do too much, but most of the time the autofix started the editing out pretty nicely. The original image was pretty dull, so to give it some color I raised the vibrancy quite a bit. By doing this it brought out the richness of the soil and the rust of the bottle caps. There was still some other colors in the image that I thought would look interesting to bring more foreward, so I adjusted the color. This consisted of changing the hue, which I went down to a more blue hue, and raising the saturation. While doing this I think it enhanced and altered the glass color to a greenish hue, which showed the reflection of light more. The only thing I am really unsure if I like in this edit is the color of the string switching to the blue hue. If I could change one thing about Pixlr it would be that I could isolate an area in which I did not wish to edit. Overall I don't think that the blue string isn't really that distracting, I'm just being a bit nit-picky.