For the longest time, I had been fighting the urge to get for myself a DSLR camera with following arguments in mind: better control of image depth, higher quality resolution with RAW, wider angle, and powerful optical zoom. Those and I'd look cool lugging around a DSLR (come on, who wouldn't?!). But then, it's very convenient to just carry around a point and shoot camera. We fish the cam from our pocket and shoot away whenever there's a need, a habit that became more convenient with the advent of high-megapixeled mobile phones (mine has 5Mpix).
Over the weekend, I've immersed myself to learning how to better post-process photos with the use of Adobe Photoshop 7. Yes, they already have CS2 and CS3 but this is the version I currently have. Later in this post, you'll see that although outdated, Photoshop 7 still does wonders.
My objective for this post is not to show off how I can majestically compose subjects in photos nor would I want to bitch-slap readers with my new-fangled Photoshop skills. With the processed photos below, I'd like to share with fellow point-and-shoot photographers that it is still possible to greatly enhance our "inferiorly captured" photos (something I'd disagree to with my whole being) and take them to greater heights visually.
With the exception of the McFarlaine Dragon photo in the set which I took using my old 5Mpix Canon Ixus i5, everything else were taken using my Nokia N82 5Mpix camphone. Hover on the images with your mouse to show how the photos looked "before" they were processed using Photoshop. Please bear with me if the "before" images take some time to load. Please just let the mouse hover over the image until it changes.
Please click here for the 5 photos I'm talking about with before-after comparison >> (Sorry, Multiply does not allow css in blogs)
