Before & After
Essential Questions: Can there be authenticity in photography? Do we view photographs differently if we know they have been ‘doctored?’ Does the artist have a responsibility to declare when their images are altered?
- Rotated image to be aligned horizontally
- Increased exposure
- Used healing brush to remove pedestrians
- Increased contrast in the sky
- Increased saturation of pond and surrounding greenery
- Lightened image
- Used healing brush to remove distracting colors behind leaves
- Added a green tint to image to make leaves seem 'fuller'
- Brightened shadows beneath rocks and logs
- Removed branch at the bottom right corner of image
- Minor resizing
- 'Cleaned up' the sky using healing brush tool
- Increased the blues on the ground to better blend it into the lake
- Increased lightness on the loose stick
- General contrast and sharpening to sky
- Resized photo to better comply with the rule of thirds
- Decreased shadows in the area around the sign to bring out the design
- Darkened the surrounding leaves to focus the audience on sign
- Added a small purple tint to image for more 'artificial' lighting
- Increased warmth of image by applying an orange tint
- Minor re-coloration of logs to better match the warmth
- General sharpening and saturation increases on plant in center
- Blurring of flowers in the background