One-Four Challenge: January Week 2

Posted on by Louise Bunting

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Here’s my entry for January week 2 of Robyn’s One Four Challenge, which asks you to edit the same picture in four different ways over a month.

For this week’s edit I used the online photo-edit site, PicMonkey. I increased both shadows and highlights before desaturating the picture to full black and white. To finish off, I also darkened the edges.

If you’d like to see last week’s edit, go here.

I’d love to know what everyone thinks.

I thought I’d also pass on a few little facts I’ve discovered about ink caps that I’ve discovered this week.

  • They are actually mushrooms, not toadstools, as they are (generally) edible.
  • To be eaten they should be picked when the gills are white.
  • They should not be consumed within three days of alcohol as the combination has an adverse affect, including: reddening of the face, nausea, vomiting, malaise, agitation and tingling limbs. At its very worst it can cause heart attacks. This led to the common name of Tippler’s Bane.
  • It has a completely non-poisonous cousin, the shaggy ink cap.
  • It is very strong, able to push its way even through asphalt.

To find out more you can go here, here or here.

I’ll have a few more facts about ink caps next week!

13 thoughts on “One-Four Challenge: January Week 2”

  3. Love these in black and white!
    Would you be able to include the previous edits next time, so we can see the differences in each one? It’s such a cool idea, this challenge 😊

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  4. Nice job, its a lovely photo and it looks great in BW. My personal preference would have been for a slightly brighter tone to the image, the dark bit at the bottom RH corner is quite dark and heavy and detracts from the subject a bit, but I don’t know how much control you have over that with the software you use, and as I say, its a personal preference, and yours may well be for the darker look 🙂 And there are bright highlights on the top that you may have lost with a different process too.

    Interesting facts, Im surprised they can break ashphalt!

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    1. Thanks for the feedback. It’s good to know what other people like/dislike. I did actually have quite a few different versions of this edit, with varying levels of darkness. I eventually decided on this one mainly because I liked the way the ink caps popped against the background. As you said, it is probably a matter of personal preference. 🙂
      I’m glad you liked the facts – I found them quite fascinating to look up. 😀

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    1. Thanks. I’ve had great fun playing around with the picture trying to decide on my edits. And I found the facts too interesting not to share! 🙂

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    1. I’ve only recently started exploring photo editing at all, so I’m still trying out all the different ones. As a beginner I quite like PicMonkey – it’s very easy to use. 🙂 I only have Photoshop Elements on my computer and the black and white version on PicMonkey was much better than anything I could get from that. Thanks for commenting!

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