Photo Challenge #22 & #23: Something Pink & Something Green and Edit Me Challenge

Hey Everyone!  Happy Wednesday!  I hope your weeks are going well so far.  My week has been pretty jam packed with a lot of activity.  Lots of enjoyable activity.

I'm still working on the photo challenge and I have 2 more pictures to share.  I can't believe I'm almost done.  Well, actually I can--I feel like I've been working on this challenge forever haha...

This first picture is of my "Something Pink".  I decided to use my lipstick. 

Something Pink

This next one was of my something green.  While Scott and I were visiting some of his family in Lancaster, PA, his sister and brother-in-law took us to this quaint little place.  I thought it was so beautiful, so I jumped out of the car (while it was stopped) and snapped a shot of this moss-covered bridge.  This happens to be the place where our brother-in-law proposed to Scott's sister.  Beautiful, right?

Something Green

I'm still loving the Edit Me Challenge so I decided to participate again this week.  The photo came from the guest judge for the week: Linda from Coach House Crafting.

BEFORE: 

AFTER: 

Here's what I did:

• I did some cropping so that the boats on the side wouldn't take away from the cliff scene.
• I slightly increased the exposure and recovery of the picture.  As I increased the fill light, I increased the blacks a bit as well.
• I adjusted the brightness and the contrast quite a bit.  I also used a graduated filter to increase the brightness and contrast on the clouds to make them stand out a bit more. 
• I increased the clarity quite a bit vibrance a little and decreased the saturation. 

What do you think?  What would you have done differently?

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