A Tad Bit of Editing

In my last blog entry (July 26), I showed 6 examples of the same shot taken using different camera modes.  I don't normally do much with black & white and maybe that's why my eye was drawn to one of those over the color shots.  At any rate this is the one I gravitated towards and threw into PS Elements.

I really didn't do all that much.  First the basics - adjusted "levels" and "brightness".  Then went to the "Filter Gallery" and applied a a small amount of the "Paint Daubs" and the very minimum of the "Poster Edges" filters. Since it's hard to see what the filters really accomplish, I'll include a couple of close-ups for comparison.

Above is the original.  It would've been fine with just a levels adjustment, but since I like to play, I continued on.  I liked the combination of the 2 filters which resulted in a crisper, more defined image (below).

On a side note, I shot this as experimentation.  I'd normally never shoot using the camera's black & white mode.  My theory being that I can always take a color shot and later convert it to b&w, but I'd have a dickens of a time trying to do that in reverse!