Photo Edit Breakdown – Week 3

Welcome to this episode of Photo Edit Breakdown! I hope you had a wonderful week.

I hope you enjoyed the video, and that it gave you inspiration and help to create beautiful photos on your own!

This week the vote was really close!! The most voted for photo had only 4% more than the second one, which was the picture of the staircase through the handheld phone.

Here’s the before and after:

Tap on the photo to see the before/after

Alright, now it’s time to discover the photos of this week, and to vote for the one you want to see me edit!

To check out last week episode, click here: Photo Edit Breakdown Week 2

Photos of the Week

Monday

Blue hour in Etretat; editing this shot was tough, because it was really dark to begin with. I had to bring back the details in the shadows, and try to create a nice soft blue for the water, while making it contrast with the white of the cliffs.

Tuesday

Silhouette shot of me jumping in a cave. To get the maximum detail in the background, which is the sea and the sky, I had to expose for the highlights. The result is really dark shadows. I went along and chose to create a silhouette look, with the silhouette nicely contrasting on the blue background.

Wednesday

Shot by my friend @l2rssi at sunrise in front of the Eiffel Tower. This shot was hard to edit because Laurent shot in JPEG format, meaning there wasn’t a lot of information in the file. I chose to go with a soft look, and accentuate the lighting.

Thursday

Again with a silhouette look, but this one is a bit different. The challenge here was that all of the foreground was dark, including the cliff. It was really not that interesting, so I had to recover the details and try to make the greens come back. As it was really dark, I wasn’t able to get the greens I wanted, so I went for a faded look.

Friday

This was shot on the same day as the previous photo of me at the Eiffel Tower, by my friend Laurent; thus I had the same challenge, editing a JPEG image. I didn’t have a lot of freedom to edit, so I went for a soft look: I desaturated the colors, and made the stairs/wall a soft orange-y yellow.

Saturday

This was also shot during blue hour in Etretat; here the challenge was that the photo looked completely dull, really flat, with nothing to spike interest. I accentuated the white of the cliffs, and went for a soft magenta look in the sunset sky. I added the birds in photoshop to create extra interest, as well as the light source on the top left corner.

Sunday

Picture I took of my friend Robin in Noisy, a suburb in the Paris area. For this one, which is an urban shot, I went for a grungy look: desaturated the colors, and left the greens in the bottom of the picture to balance with the figure in the top half.

Which picture should I edit next? YOU choose!

So there you have them, the 7 photos of the week!

As always, let me know in the comments what you think of the images!

Have a wonderful week, and I’ll see you next Monday to edit the photo you’ve picked!