... of old photos is fun. I am sorting and deleting those I should not keep, and improving some and leaving others. I'm pleased that quite a few of my photos are actually best left unprocessed. Others definitely improve by tinkering with the lighting or the saturation levels.
Although all those presets I mentioned earlier are loads of fun, I'm quickly paring the ones I use down to half a dozen or so. Mostly, it suffices if I adjust the exposure a bit, or crop the picture and blur the background.
The really fun thing is to find buried treasures. Pictures that don't look like much turn out to be gems when treated right. Below is one that I didn't even know I had -- Doug took it when we made a huge batch of "welcome home" pix with Leah and I couldn't bear to look at those photos because I found myself so ugly and fat. Yeah, well. Hormones are funny things.
I cropped this picture a bit, and played around with some settings. I think the B&W version is really nice. My sweet David, trying to find his place in the world.
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