One photo – numerous possibilities

Anyone who does Photoshop work or has ever dabbled in photo editing probably knows that you can keep tweaking a picture almost forever. Especially shooting in RAW – which changes the actual pixel information rather than adding, say, more black pixels to increase contrast – you can tweak a photo and have dozens of different results, most if not all of which will be artistically interesting in their own way.

This was originally taken in color. In Camera RAW (an Adobe Bridge feature) I chose from several different black and white settings, rotated it and cropped it – all of which give it different aesthetic appearances.

Case-in-point…

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

As if RAW didn’t give you enough options.. I brought this into Photoshop and adjusted the ‘curve’ levels [I believe it was], until I stumbled upon one that made it look like it was on fire. Then, to get the black boarder, I went into the layer properties and adjusted the contour until I found one that fit just right.