Practicing photoshop

So yeah, before this I was always trying to achieve colour of effects as close to reality as possible. But sadly that results in pretty unsaturated pictures that doesn’t feel satisfactory. However, I also don’t like to add effects or contrast to images to make them POP in your face.

I mean, yeah, it looks a heck lot nicer but I don’t like to do it that way.

Hence, I started a new album on fb where I’m currently editing quite a lot of pictures. To make it look like what I feel about it. Hopefully somehow my feelings will get across? Just an experiment to see if people can somehow understand how I feel about that image. So chances are that the colours are not how it looks like physically.

For example, I gave this image this look because it gives me an old, nostalgic feeling. I don’t know if you get it. But yeah.

Or like in this image,

I remember it to be a really bright and a bloody hot day. The sun was just burning on my skin.

This picture is like, when I looked up, and I get the sense of the vastness of the sky. And it’s like, ohh wow..

Oh well, hopefully I’ll be good enough one day to capture all these things down without resorting to trickery photoshop. For the moment, to show you the degree of editing that could be done. (or how much I’m practicing), here’s two images to compare

p.s. I try not to add any artsy effects (note: hipster) because, that kinda ruins the whole point. I don’t see the world in some pale green/yellow vignette. Nor do I see it in some ultra high contrast mode.