J210 Unit 2 Lighting edit

This is an example of how you can utilize PhotoShop to make adjustments to the lighting and contrast of a picture.  The photo I chose for adjustment is one of me on a route to summit Long's Peak in Rocky Mountain National Park.

In the first photo (above), you can see it is exceptionally bright.  This is due to the rising sun being at an angle directly reflecting off of the Boulderfield and then reflected yet again against the Keystone and surrounding rock.


Below, you can see the edited picture.  I utilized PhotoShop to bring out the shadows and adjust the brightness and contrast.

By making these enhancements, I feel I've kept the true colors of my clothing I am wearing and that of my backpack, and the color in the sky is more accurate to the day I shot this.  You can also see a large difference in the shadows, most noticeable is the one in the nook directly below where I am seated.

As you can see from these photos, photoediting software can allow you to enhance a picture in a manner that could bring out the best in the visual cues of that picture.