May Photos, Day 14—Grass

 

Sometimes the simplest prompts can prove to be the most difficult, and so it was today. 

First, there’s the problem that most of the grass around our house is really just a bunch of mowed weeds, so it’s not all that photogenic.  Secondly, while I’ve had my DSLR for almost a year, I’m still using the lenses we had with our old 35mm camera, primarily a third party lens rather than a dedicated Sony.  Unfortunately, one of the things I’ve discovered is that the macro function just doesn’t seem to work like it should, and for something like grass, I really would’ve preferred a greater macro functionality.

So, I took several, trying to find a look that I thought was decent.  Here a few of the rejected entries.

                                                                   

                                                                          

 

Not so great, are they?  Yeah, I didn’t think so, either.  But, really, the final chosen one wasn’t all that exciting, either, so I decide to play around a bit more than usual with the editing.  Today, I was using PicMonkey, which is rapidly becoming my favorite.

Before and after.  Thank goodness for PicMonkey.

                 

Don’t you wish everything could be tinkered with like that, so life could be made just what you want?