WYP 65 | Dolce Pics

I had the pleasure of meeting Laura from Dolce Pics in person this weekend! :] We attended a workshop together, and she's pretty rad!

She runs a little game called "What's Your Play" every Tuesday, where she uploads a photo and asks other photographers to tweak it however they see fit, and share the results. I love seeing other people edit. (It's strange, I know! :D) So I play along whenever I can.

Original photo can be found here:

Now, despite having midterms this week, I played along anyway! (Or maybe it's because of midterms..)

My edits in LR:
Temp +10
Tint +15
(I like photos warm and pink!)
Exp +1
Recovery 35
Fill 13
Blacks 11
Contrast 56
Clarity +25
Vibrance +55
Saturation -28
Lens Correction:
Amount -67
Midpoint 33

What's Your Play - Dolce Pics

Laura over at Dolce Pics has this "What's Your Play" post every week, and she encourages us to play around with an image she uploads- so people can see how others edit some photos.

I think it's a neat idea, and like to play along once in a while. :D The original photo can be found here: http://www.dolcepics.com/whatsyourplay/63/

This is my edit:


I cropped it to be more square-ish, and edited in Lightroom 2. Here are the slider values I used:

Temp +2
Tint -2
Exposure +1.00
Recovery 67
Fill light 21
Blacks 7
Contrast +56
Clarity +25
Vibrance +55
Vignettes +52, Midpoint 76

MacBook Pro!

My trusty old HP laptop died. Well, it caught a virus, and then died. My dad was able to rescue it by re-installing, but I decided to bid my 3.5-year-old laptop farewell.

I have several very persuasive Mac-using friends. Upon hearing that I needed a new laptop came a flurry of comments on my Facebook wall raving about their MacBooks, and how I should get one.

There were a few factors, one of the big ones being that the "Buy a Mac and get a free iPod Touch" promo was still on, that caused me to eventually take the plunge.

So now, I did it! I made the leap. I'm a (brand-new) Mac user, and I'm proud of it! I got the 13" MacBook Pro, with 160G of HD and 4G of RAM. :) I decided to splurge on the extra RAM. :D

*The screen is amazing. So much sharper/clearer/crisper than my old one. I already want the 24" LED Cinema Display! And it's so fast! The time needed for photos to render in Lightroom is significantly cut down :D :D :D *