Distracting Elements:

In our next lesson we are learning about distracting elements in photos and how to eliminate them. We were assigned to take a photo of our own captured with some sort of distracting elements and then using photoshop to fix the problems. I simply took a photo of the back of blessing at night and used the light to display how distracting the light is. Below is the picture that I took. The light distracts the rest of the photo from being visible. 

Below is the finished photo after being used with photoshop. As you can see the lighting is much better. To do this is simply changed the contrast of the photo. I made the brightness of the rest of the photo about 89 while I took the light and brought the level down to make it less distracting. 

I also used levels to manage how well the lighting and the contrast of the photo went together. The light is much less distracting now and this helps the viewer see the entire picture. using the two adjustment layers in photoshop I was able to edit the picture so that the viewer may see the entire photo and actually understand what I was trying to capture.