because i felt artistic...

Those of you who read my main blog know that I had the sudden inspiration to edit photos from and post about some things from our Virginia Beach vacation last summer.  While editing, I came across this certain lovely landscape.  (Below SOOC)

I liked it, although, obviously, it looked rather bland.  I uploaded it to Picnik and did this rather basic edit.

Nice, but it needed something...more.  It was then that, feeling a bit artistic and odd, I created a this set of edits, working off my original basic edit for the photo.  I had lots o fun messing around....

Here's my first one, using Cross-Process to a certain extent (I forget what).  Mmm, I love this Picnik effect.

For this, I brough the exposure down and contrast up.  Funky, I know.

This one consisted of bring the saturation down and the temperature about as high up as it could go.  It ended looking sort of old-photograph-ish.

I decided that I needed to revert back to something I knew well at this point.  Which brought me to a traditional black and white image.  I used my Picnik recipe consisting of using "Boost" after the inicial revert.  Because Boost with the strength to 30% (what I wanted) was blowing out some of the clouds up top, I used the eraser brush

I started this edit with the previous black and white and faded the Sepia about 30%.

So now I'm a bit curious...which is your favorite?

And am I the only one who goes on strange editing stints like this sometimes? ;)

love!
hannah m.