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31 Days of Before & After Shots: Day 7

October 7, 2012 by Dawn Camp

Today’s photo was from last weekend at our homeschool group’s mother/son outing. For years we’ve taken an overnight camping trip (cabins, not tents) at a 4H campground in the mountains of north Georgia. The setting is beautiful, a wonderful place to bond with my boys and the other moms, too. Four boys, including my 17-year-old son (on the right) graduate this year; they served as captains for the four teams that competed in an assortment of events on this trip.

After performing for the moms, my son and one of his best friends continued to play guitar. They’re slightly obsessed right now—at least my son is.

I wanted the image to feel timeless, to capture a moment that defines this period of my son’s life: to give him something to look back on and remember what it feels like to be young, hanging out with his mom and his friends in the mountains, strumming his guitar with his buddy.

Those of you who lug around your camera even when it’s heavy, uncomfortable, inconvenient: you have the power to bestow priceless gifts to those your camera captures. 

Day 7 - Before

Day 7 - After

The Edits:

  1. Crop it.
  2. Increase exposure to lighten.
  3. Move the Lightroom highlights slider to the left so that you can still see the cabin outside the window (I wanted it to be visible instead of overexposed).
  4. Converted to black and white.
  5. Push the exposure slider to the right and the black slider to the left to lighten the photo and the whites, but keep the dark areas dark. (Sliders work differently in Lightroom 4 compared to earlier versions of the software.)
  6. Add a medium vignette (darken the edges).
  7. My ISO was set to 1000 and the photo was a little grainy, but I liked the effect and didn’t try to reduce the noise.

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[Click here to read my other 31 Days series, 31 Days of Encouragement and 31 Days of Real Life.]

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Comments

  1. Nancy says

    October 7, 2012 at 8:11 pm

    Hey, I know those guys! I was actually pretty proud of us. Nobody cried when we left the camp, or when we all went our separate ways in Dahlonega. It hit me on Sunday that it was our last mom/son camp out. At least for three of us. I cried on the airplane all the way to Washington. Those people probably thought I was a nut!

    • Dawn says

      October 7, 2012 at 11:20 pm

      I totally get that. There’s a part of me that knows I have many more mother/son outings to come, and maybe I’ll even be able to take the big guys back again (like Hayden this year).

  2. Olivia says

    October 7, 2012 at 10:28 pm

    I just discovered the 31 Before and After! And I have decided to take the challenge. My efforts are over at The Seeing Eye, http://photojournalseeingeye.blogspot.com. I have used CS6 for the major edits, but I am reading more and more that LR4 can make the CS6 edits much easier and quicker. I am eager to learn. This 31-day “challenge” should help me grow as a photographer and editor.

    • Dawn says

      October 7, 2012 at 11:16 pm

      Olivia, it’s easy to start in LR, send the photo to PS, and then save the changes, which sends it back into LR again.

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