It's Editing Time

I absolutely love editing photos, in my opinion this is the time where the photos really come to life. I am obsessed with using the tools available to me on my MacBook, it is the same tools I used to edit the donuts for my table of contents. It allows me to create a masterpiece and it will definitely be useful for future products in this class and others where I need to take photographs.

In my photographs, I wanted to capture things that are the same color or in the same color family in one shot. If you take a look at my previous blog post you can see all the photos pre-editing. So the one below is an image of all the brown ingredients.

The edits I made are:

• Increased the exposure to make everything brighter
• Increased the contrast to balance out the exposure increase
• Removed all the highlights because it gave the photo a weird yellow undertone 
• Decreased the shadows to prevent the shot from being to dark 
• Cropped it into a circular shape 

Below is the white ingredients + the cracked eggs. I included the eggs with the white ingredients because there were way more brown ingredients than white so I had to try and balance it out. 

The edits I made are:

• Slight increase in exposure because this photo was already bright to begin with
• Decreased contrast because the photo was already bright 
• The smallest bit of highlight, the yellow highlight complimented the yellow yolks
• increased shadows to add depth to the whiteness of the ingredients 
• Cropped into circular shape 

Here are photos of the mixed ingredients:

Edits:

• Increase in exposure because photo was dull
• Increase in contrast to balance out the exposure 
• Remove highlight
• Remove shadow
• Crop into rectangular shape to eliminate excess background 

Edits:

• Increase in exposure because photo had an ugly undertone
• Did not change contrast 
• Remove highlight because it made it look more appetizing 
• Remove shadow because it made it look more appetizing 
• Crop into a cleaner rectangular shape 

French toast cups pre oven :

Edits:

• Increase in exposure to brighten the image up also to show more detail 
• Slight decrease in contrast to even out the exposure 
• Add highlight to help show color of bread
• Increase shadow to make the color of the pan pop!
• Crop into cleaner rectangular shape 

French Toast cups post oven : 

Edits:

• Slight increase in expose to make it look visually pleasing 
• Increase in contrast to make bread look crispy
• Add highlight to show to perfect baking job I achieved ;)
• Remove shadow 
• Crop into cleaner rectangular shape 

French toast cups out of pan with syrup:

Edits: 

• Increase in expose to make the food look more appetizing 
• Increase in contrast to show depth of colors
• Add highlight to make photo look more professional 
• Increase shadow to balance out exposure
• Crop into cleaner rectangular shape 

WOO so that's all my photos, stay tuned for the finished product of my two page spread!