Time for another edition of AfterBeforeFriday Forum, hosted by Stacy Fischer on her blog Visual Venturing.
I remember it was a middle of a very hot, summer day and the sun was very bright. I liked the composition and the movement, but I was never very fond of washed out colors. With my editing skills slightly improved, I decided to play again with this image.
I wanted to bring color and vibrancy to the image, so I increased saturation. My point of reference were the leaves in the background, because it was late summer and by then they usually get this dark green color. So, I decided to adjust the saturation to follow the natural tones of the greens and the earth. That gave me this beautiful shade of brown on the animals.
Again, I used Orton and I think it works well on this image. It may seem I use Orton too often, but I assure you there are images that don’t look good with the Orton effect. My last thing was to bring focus on that charging horse/mule/whatever (I have no idea?!?! 
) by using Focal Soften.
I think the choices I made in this edit, brought more depth and intensity. This is one of the rare times I am really happy with the final result.
If you want to see which image I’ve chosen for the March edition of ABF’s OnePhotoFocus, you can check it on Stacy’s blog Visual Venturing.
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That works for me. I think it gives the picture an afternoon kind of effect.
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Glad you liked it and thank you for your continuing support. I really appreciate it, because I know how time consuming visiting and commenting on other blogs can be.
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I really like the after photo, it fits the whole scene like you said, And, I like the photo for next months one photo focus!
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Oh, thank you for that. It was so hard to pick the image…Ah, the pressure! 😀
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A very interesting photo for next months one photo challenge I will be putting my thinking cap on.
As for this weeks image, you have definitely got some motion in the final edit and that works for me.
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I can’t wait to see final results. It will be chellenging to be different.
My goal was to accentuate the motion in the image, so I am happy you recognized that.
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The change in focus made quite a difference here 🙂
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Thank you, I think that, too.
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Interesting approach. I like what you’ve done here.
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I must say that I like it, too. Thank you.
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The Orton effect is interesting on this one, Loré. The original image seems much more static than the final, where the effect does suggest movement of the horse/mule/whatever (😉), which I quite like.
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Thank you, Stacy. I so wanted to accentuate that movement, because he/she was really running towards me.
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Yikes! Good for you for standing your ground, Loré 😉
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You’ve really achieved what you set out to do. Like Stacy, the movement is definitely accentuated by the out of focus. And the color saturation is a great improvement. The only negative I have is that I would have liked to have seen the mule’s face remain more in focus. Other than that, a great processing job!
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When using Focal Soften, it is very limiting thing to adjust the radius to fit the image best. The problem was that the original image wasn’t very sharp and I completely forgot to sharpen it first and then apply Focal Soften. Ah, we live and learn. 🙂 Thank you for your constructive comment.
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I agree with everyone else that the Orton effect helped accentuate the movement, and the saturation improved the image as well. 🙂 That horse/mule/whatever looks pretty intense coming towards you, your one big eye (camera) must have been very interesting to it. 😛
I like your image for next week’s One Photo Focus, I’ve already made my edits, I hope you like what I’ve done. 🙂
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Oh, thank you for your kind words. It was a one in a million shot and I was happy to get it.
I am really looking forward to next week’s reveal. Glad you liked my image.
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Yes, he definitely looks like he’s headed for you! Lovely job on this one, you have really accentuated the movement nicely and the warm colours are beautiful. 🙂
Looking forward to seeing all the results of your OPF image (I’ve done mine already!), I love it, it just says Loré to me! 🙂
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Oh my, now my curiosity is peeked. I am so happy that so many of you like the image and have already finished with the editing.
And I must confess I am very happy how this After turned out. I was really surprised how colors and Orton made the image come to life.
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