Generally speaking, I usually keep my post processing to a minimum, and share images little changed from their "out of the camera" version. Mostly I'll adjust a few Lightroom sliders to improve the dynamic range and/or contrast of an image to give a little more punch, but I try not to go too crazy.
Just for fun, here's an image I took in a skateboard park, before I decided to modify it in Photoshop. I rarely use Photoshop, and I did only a mediocre job with it here, but it is amusing what I was able to do.
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| Skilled Skateboarder Performing a Trick |
I wasn't happy with the way the bicycle rider's head was directly behind the skateboarder's hand. And this was after I defocused the bicyclist's upper torso and head slightly in Lightroom. So I round tripped from Lightroom into Photoshop and back and here's what I came up with:
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| A "Cleaner" Trick; The Cyclist Has Vanished |
Here's an instance where I liked the "Before" shot composition just fine, but wanted to create another perspective with a different emphasis for variation:
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| Beetle and Flower |
Here's the second version, created in Lightroom by simply rotating and cropping closer. This version is more about the beetle than the flower.
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| Beetle Displaying its Colors and Texture |
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