Beach Roses Before and After

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My husband and I went to the beach by ourselves a couple of weekends.  It was a working weekend, lots of cleaning and trying to get ready for summer.  But, I had a chance to walk around with my camera just a little.  I was walking my dog one morning and grabbed my camera.  My neighbor had a pretty rose blooming and I wandered over to take a picture.   It didn’t turn out too great.

Here’s the straight out of the camera. Blech!

This one needed to be warmed up a little.  And, I thought it could use a little roughing up.

Bet you didn’t know that roses and “roughing up” go hand in hand?

Here’s another view of the roses.

I was having some real technical difficulties with the camera.  Not sure what was going on with me.  I was all over the place.

Thanks to Lightroom and Photoshop Elements, I was able to salvage these. Here’s the after.

A little better, I think.

These were taken with a Nikon D5000 using a 35mm f1.8 lens.  And were edited in Lightroom and Photoshop Elements.

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