Post-Processing Fun Times!

When most people think of post-processing, they probably are thinking of what magazine editors do to the covergirl, brightening up the image, removing any blemishes, making the image just a little bit better so that people will like and thus buy the magazine. Now don't get me wrong, I have been known to do the exact same things to some of my photos, but that is not all that I do. I'm guessing most of the people you readers know who process their photos use Adobe Photoshop, probably CS2 or CS3. Now, being a college student, I cannot afford the hefty pricetag that comes with Photoshop. Instead, I use Adobe Lightroom, which has many of the image tweaking features of Photoshop, but I cannot make composite images. For what I do when it comes to processing photos, Lightroom works just fine.
Now, like I said earlier, I don't process my photos in the standard way. I do things differently when it comes to editing my photos. My editing approach and technique is different from photo to photo. On some, I just do the basic processing like making the picture a little bit brighter and adjusting the white balance. Then there are the times where I just start playing with sliders and presets over and over again until I come out with an image that I think looks interesting or just plain cool. That is the case with all of the images that are going to be posted below. My advice to all you photo editors out there, break convention and go with what is in your mind.