On Contrast And Saturation and the benefits of Photoshop

One of the things that I like to do as a hobby is steal my sisters camera and dabble in a little artistic photography. Of course, since it is simply dabbling, most of my photographs came out mediocre at best. However, that was before my mom pointed out a post by the blogger Pioneer Woman. She uses photoshop to enhance nearly every picture she takes. Nothing fancy mind you, just a little contrast here and and a little saturation there and some other minor tweaks that I have yet to read about. I thought, “Hey. Why not try it.” In doing so, the quality of my work has increased quite a bit. It isn’t quite professional quality yet. But its certainly better than before. Perhaps Photoshopping isn’t all that bad after all.

Some of my pictures, some ’shopped and some not are on my FLickr, http://www.flickr.com/photos/smckittr