{"id":925,"date":"2012-09-18T11:39:27","date_gmt":"2012-09-18T18:39:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.anthonyhelton.com\/blog\/?p=925"},"modified":"2012-09-18T11:41:00","modified_gmt":"2012-09-18T18:41:00","slug":"second-looks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.anthonyhelton.com\/blog\/?p=925","title":{"rendered":"Second Looks"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>One of the most tenuous aspects of pet photography is the finished look of a photo. While I&#8217;m working on a shot I&#8217;ll ask myself questions like: Is it contrasty enough, or is it too contrasty? Is it bright enough, or is it overexposed? Are the colors dull, or over saturated? I would say that 9 times out of 10, after I finish working on a photo I don&#8217;t go back for further editing. Every now and then, however, a processed photo will nag at me. Something will feel the slightest bit off, and I can&#8217;t rest until I go back and tweak whatever it is about the photo that&#8217;s bothering me. It&#8217;s for this reason that I usually like to give edited shots a several day &#8220;cooling off&#8221; period after I&#8217;m done working on them, at the end of which I can look at them with a fresh perspective.<\/p>\n<p>Take this shot of Chewey the Welsh Corgi, for example. Super cute! I love his expression, the way his ears are cocked forward and how his paw is resting on the stone in front of him. There&#8217;s a variety of colors between the wet rocks, the leaves, and Chewey&#8217;s fur. All in all, I love this photo! But after I worked on it and set it aside, some things started to nag at me. It just seemed to lack that bit of &#8220;pop&#8221;. This usually happens when I back off from processing for fear of &#8220;cooking&#8221;\u00c2\u00a0(or pumping up the color and saturation so much that it no longer resembles what my eye actually saw) a photo.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-928 p3-downsized\" title=\"091412_Chewey_03_Before_WM\" src=\"http:\/\/www.anthonyhelton.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/091412_Chewey_03_Before_WM.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"900\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.anthonyhelton.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/091412_Chewey_03_Before_WM.jpg 1024w, http:\/\/www.anthonyhelton.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/091412_Chewey_03_Before_WM-300x200.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 900px) 100vw, 900px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>In this case, however, I thought the photo lacked a bit of color and presence. So I made a few tweaks that brought it more in line with the vision I have for my photos:<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-927 p3-downsized\" title=\"091412_Chewey_03_Before_After\" src=\"http:\/\/www.anthonyhelton.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/091412_Chewey_03_Before_After.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"900\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.anthonyhelton.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/091412_Chewey_03_Before_After.jpg 1024w, http:\/\/www.anthonyhelton.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/091412_Chewey_03_Before_After-300x200.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 900px) 100vw, 900px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>And in the end, I was left with the photo below! Same great expression and pose, but this time Chewey pops off the screen a little better than before.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-926 p3-downsized\" title=\"091412_Chewey_03_After\" src=\"http:\/\/www.anthonyhelton.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/091412_Chewey_03_After.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"900\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.anthonyhelton.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/091412_Chewey_03_After.jpg 1024w, http:\/\/www.anthonyhelton.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/091412_Chewey_03_After-300x200.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 900px) 100vw, 900px\" \/><\/p>\n\t<div class=\"p3-fb-like-btn-wrap\">\n\t\t<iframe src=\"http:\/\/www.facebook.com\/plugins\/like.php?href=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.anthonyhelton.com%2Fblog%2F%3Fp%3D925&layout=standard&show_faces=false&action=like&colorscheme=light&width=450&height=35\" scrolling=\"no\" frameborder=\"0\" style=\"border:none; overflow:hidden; width:450px; height:35px;\" allowTransparency=\"true\"><\/iframe>\n\t<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One of the most tenuous aspects of pet photography is the finished look of a photo. 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