Garrett Foster Topic 2 Recipe

The smartphone I use is a Verizon LG Lucid 2 4G LTE. The Os is Android 4.1. These are the camera specs: Resolution: 5+ megapixel, auto-focus, LED flash/ Time Catch, face tracking, panorama, HDR, scene modes, ISO control, and timer. For all of these pictures, I used the apps Photo Editor Pro and Snapseed.

This was voted my picture of the week. This is a photo of the old barn on my property. There is a fence around it, which you can't see because it's so overgrown with plants. The hole in the foliage, allowing the barn to be seen, is where a gate used to be in the fence. For some reason, the plants did not grow as high or thick where this gate used to be. I took this photo so the gate hole is centered and the overgrown plants create a natural frame around the barn. The barn is slightly off center (to the right). The natural lighting made the overgrown plants appear dark (accenting the dark purples and greens) and everything beyond the overgrown plants, through the hole, very light (accenting the golden yellows and highlighting the barn).

This was the photo before editing:

 

First, I put this picture into Photo Editor Pro. I added the feature "Enhance: Illuminate." This turned up the contrast, turning the foliage in the foreground darker and everything in background lighter. It also accented the shadows. It also sightly saturated the photo. Then I added the feature "Effect: Cruz." This saturated the photo in a way that accented the dark purples and greens of the overgrown plants, while accenting the bright yellows and greens of everything beyond the foliage. Then I put the photo into Snapseed. I used the feature "Tune Image." I turned the brightness down to -40. This gave the photo better contrast while also slightly saturating it more.