The Turkey Hunter

[Rainman]

I'm new to slr photography and post processing. In fact just a couple of months. Here is my second project in elements. The picture is my grandson taken last weekend.
Before;



After;



I know added texture, blurring, and noise as well as converting it to b&w but I am unsure of anything else that I did to it. I like the way it turned out but I'm new to this and welcome any comments or critique

[FocalFrenzy]

Your "Before" image isn't there anymore, but I really like the way this turned out. Deffinately "Wall-worthy".

[irishmuth]

My personal opinion is that there are a lot of effects being used, but without any real purpose. I can't tell what the goal was or what type of style the PP adds. Sorry, just one man's opinion, though.

[Rainman]

Thanks and thanks. There was no purpose or goal for the processing. That is for more processing after it was converted to B&W. That's just a one click operation and not allot can be learned from it. I'm at entry level in photography and post processing. Allot was done just to see what would happen when I did this or that. So I guess the real purpose was to post and hang it out there to get some feed back. I think you nailed it Mike. There was no goal or desired result. Maybe that should be step 1. Anyway I think in the end I liked it because it didn't look like a snap shot anymore