A Photo a Week Challenge: Leaves

Whether your hemisphere is moving into fall or spring, leaves are a sign of the seasons for October and November. These little guys were having fun playing in all of the leaves at the park where I was taking their family fall photos, though I’m not sure Mom was all that happy about Baby S eating a pine cone.

IN A NEW POST CREATED FOR THIS CHALLENGE, SHARE ONE OR TWO OR MORE PHOTOS OF THAT FEATURE LEAVES.

Everyone is welcome to participate, even if your blog isn’t about photography.

Here’s how it works:

1. Each week, I’ll come up with a theme and post a photo that I think fits. You take photographs based on your interpretation of the theme, and post them on your blog (a new post!) anytime before the following Thursday, when the next photo theme will be announced.
2. To make it easy for others to check out your photos, title your blog post “A Photo a Week Challenge: (theme of the week)” and be sure to use the “postaday″ tag.
3. Come back here and post a link to your image in the comments for this challenge.
4. Follow nancy merrill photography so that you don’t miss out on weekly challenge announcements.

After Before Challenge Week 37

For this week’s After-Before Friday challenge, I decided to go small in terms of both my subject and the amount of post-processing I wanted to do. While at my sister’s house taking senior pictures for a great high school senior (pictures to come later), I came across this sweet little pine cone and couldn’t resist taking it’s picture, too.

When I opened it in PhotoShop, I made a few small adjustments in the RAW converter.

These changes produced this image.

I really liked how it was looking, but the pine cone seemed a bit lost in the image, so I decided to crop it close and square.

To see more After-Before entries, visit After-Before Friday Week 37.

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