First Assignment

    For my first assignment I had to edit one photo five different ways. The following picture was the photo I chose. I really like it feels very balanced. There's a good amount of negative space around the wind vein (which is the subject). It's also in focus and centered pretty well. The lighting is decent, and there's some nice contrast between the close branches and the ones behind.

    As for the rest of them, I decided to edit it in three ways. I made three that were simply grayscale, I played with the contrast levels to try and draw attention to the subject matter. The top one is my favorite of these. I think it came out the best because I was able to make the further trees fade into the sky while separating the closer trees even more. All while keeping the wind vein as the center of attention. It just feels the best to look at.

    Then, for the last two, I used Jason's color presets to create warm and cold toned images. I'm a big fan of how rustic the warm toned one looks. But the cold toned one is a little odd. Not sure why, it might be a little bit too blue for my taste. In the future I might prefer to soften its impact a little.