My Editing

I have had to edit all my photos, some more than others. Here are two photos that I have edited:

Here is my unedited version. As you can see the woman's hair is duller, and less rich in colour. There is a pipe on the wall in the background. The photo looks like a simple snapshot, rather than a nice photo.

Here is my edited version. As you can see I have removed the pipe, and altered the contrast, saturation and made her hair more vibrant. I have used GIMP, CameraRaw and Picasa to edit this photograph.


Here is another example of my editing:

Here, you can see the end of the backdrop. The lighting is completely natural, so the white backdrop is pretty uneven in terms of shadowing.

Here is my edited version:
As you can see I have cropped the image in order to get rid of the edge of the backdrop and get closer to my subject.
I reduced the saturation of the suit to make it more black and less blue. I then increased the saturation of the skin in order to get some colour back.
In GIMP, I used the paintbrush tool to create a spotlight, which I lacked in my original photo.
Using the select tool, I selected the shirt and balanced the colour to more or a Cyan (-50). This was to make the shirt pop out. I chose Cyan because it mixed nicely with the other colours.