Before and After

This was an obvious photography fail.

I'd been taking pictures out in the bright sunlight when

Cholita came running across the shadowed patio, 

wearing her sister's too-big dress and a pink crown,

 draped in her rag of a blankie.

It was a photo op too good to pass up.

Unfortunately, I didn't think to change my camera settings

and the result was predictably dark.

I am a complete newbie at photo editing,

so I messed around with the picture in I-Photo,

a program equal to my abilities.

I cropped, upped the exposure, downplayed shadows,

and generally just moved cursors 

until things looked interesting.

From there, I went over to Photoshop Elements,

a foreign land to me,

and used Coffeshop's Black and White action.

I like it.

Somewhat artsy, don't you think?