As promised yesterday, here are two edits for the image I took for the photo exercise. The first one is bumping up the contrast, lightening the shadows a bit and adjusting the colors. I used Florabella's "Pollyanna" action for this and tweaked it quite a bit to my liking. I find most of her actions render my images way too bright as I tend to shoot bright already. So I always have to darken her actions, and I also lower the opacity of the actions down to just a few percent. A hint more than anything, really. I used to love heavily edited images but as my technique is getting better, I spend less and less time editing. My most common adjustment is the white balance. Note to self: work on the white balance! Btw, yes, his eyes are really that lovely green color. He has my Mom's beautiful eyes, lucky kid.

The second edit is a conversion to B&W. Again, I used a Florabella action, this one called "B/W Film" from her Luxe II collection.

Which is your favorite?