Special Lighting Improvement

Sometimes I'll take a really good picture of something(say a flower or a bug) and I'll find that it could look a lot better with just a touch of improvement lighting. Let me show you what I mean.

Take this flower for example.

It's an ok picture to start out with(the top), but I think a bit of special lighting could really make it stand out. Add some flashlight effect to it and we get the picture on the bottom. The special lighting effect draws the eye towards the actual flower, which is the main subject of the photo. It also makes the picture appear a lot more dramatic, which I love.

Another example where lighting comes in handy is this...

BIG difference in these 2 photos! The one on the top is slightly washed out and the shadows don't really look all that great. I added some special lighting, and now it looks a lot more like it did in person. The shadows look great and the colors are a lot more summer-y.

The last special lighting improvement I want to show is this one...

This picture wasn't bad to start out with. Actually, I almost left it how it was, but then decided that I really wanted to draw attention to the way the sun was shining. Not only did I enhance the light, but I also got rid of the super distracting wire that was in the top right corner of the original picture.

The main point I'm trying to get across is that before you declare your picture a piece of art, mess with the lighting a bit and see if you can't make it better.