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One-Four Challenge: May Week One – The Lock
After having April off from Robyn’s One-Four Challenge, I’m back with my entry for week one of May. It took me quite a long time to decide which image I wanted to use for this month – even though I thought I knew until I actually started editing. Five or so pictures later I finally land on this one. I hope you all like it.
For this first edit I wanted to keep it quite simple. I began by opening the image in Camera Raw where I very slightly increased highlights and shadows, clarity and vibrancy. I wanted to emphasize the different textures and colours of the wood and rusty metal. I then opened it in Photoshop Elements 13 where I cropped a little off the top, bottom and right hand side, and I finished off by running the sharpen tool lightly over the lock.
Whilst I have several ideas for future edits, any suggestions are gratefully received.
Here’s the original:
14 Comments on “One-Four Challenge: May Week One – The Lock”
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great detail and texture!
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Thank you, Cybele. 🙂 I’m glad you like it.
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I’m with Cybele… Great textures! What’s behind the door? 😊
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Thank you! I found all the different textures quite intriguing. 🙂 I love the mystery of locked doors…
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I like the edit!
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Thank you!
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Thanks for becoming a subscriber. Happy blogging.
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This is a wonderful photo Louise! I love photos like this 😃 Yes the textures are fabulous – so is the rust 😜
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Thank you, Robyn.I’m glad you like it. I’m looking forward to editing it over the next month. 🙂
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Looking forward to seeing what you do 😃
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Lovely textures, great bit of rust!k
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It is quite a rusty lock! I’m glad you like it. 🙂
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This is a great image for the challenge, I can already see four ways I would approach it. Can’t wait to see the next edit.
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Thank you, Ben. I’m glad you like it! I have several ideas for edits that I’m looking forward to trying out. 🙂
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