Crop a Little Gain A Lot

JoAnne teaching Drew on Easter, "tootsie rolls without wrappers are not tootsie rolls"

Occasionally we might not frame the photo perfectly when we click the shutter. That's were a little cropping of the original can make an okay picture worthy of display on your fridge. Cropping can help focus the viewers attention on what you were looking at originally. And remove distractions from the background (no offense intended Mike). Compare the cropped photo above with the original below. No other retouching has taken place on these photos.

Sometimes I do okay with the framing of my original shot. This one makes JoAnne smile.

My First HDR Photo

This is my first attempt with creating a High Dynamic Range Photo (HDR). It is actually the combination of three different photos each shot at a different exposure. Once the images are combined a process of mapping the different tones is used to display more details in the otherwise hidden areas. Below is what the photo would have looked like with a single exposure.