I love decorative lamp fixtures like this one.

The dragons are so perfect.

My Dad took this shot which I turned into a black and white for today.

I like it this way, looks oh so much more dramatic.

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Something about this fountain shot my Dad took in Alabama somewhere really called to me.

So I ran Pioneer Woman’s black and white action and added a few adjustment layers to try and bring out the statue in the center more.

A little Gaussian blur around the edges followed by an edge burn gave me a little bit more of what I was looking for, something dramatic, more poignant.

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I admit this image needed a careful strategy because although I love all the sunlight in the background I wanted to bring out the teen in the foreground.

Starting by duplicating the background layer and creating a new levels layer I moved the dark slider over toward the middle canceling out some of the over all light saturating the image.

Then I ran MCP’s touch of light or touch of darkness and used the touch of light on just the teen.

Ctrl+shift+alt+e to create a merged layer and ran CoffeeShop’s Picture Perfect. Changed the opacity of the vignette layer will soften the edge burn.

Moving back down to the original background layer I ran Pioneer Woman’s slight sharpen to bring out just a touch more detail.

And here we are:

The original:

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