Generous Garden Project
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The first picture I chose to edit were these rows of plants in the Aquaponic's center. I knew immediately what I had to do to fix this image, which is basically to increase the contrast, in order for each plant to stand out more. I also wanted the leaves of the plants to be more apparent and obvious so I lightened them a little as well.
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This is a picture of parsley, which is a type of vegetable that they also grow in the aquaponic's center, pretty much all year round I believe. Although the before and after pictures don't look too much different, I wanted to be able to showcase the name of the vegetable, which I did by making the "parsley" stick/sign more obvious/clear. The second row of leaves are also much more clear in the after picture then the before.
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What I didn't know previously about Generous Garden Project is that they also work with a lot of big corporations that donate things like mowed grass, which they use as compost for plants. Since GGP is all about "hands-on" teaching farming, they also believe that it should start at a young age. This is a little garden, sponsored by the company General Electrics, where GGP invites young children that are mostly elementary school aged to learn the basics about organic farming. Because this was such a big part of what they do, I really wanted to make the image brighter as the sun was shining down on it, to promote the adorable paintings on the fence!
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Usually I wouldn't just take a picture of grass, because I mean I feel like it's a pretty cheap shot, not very original, it's everywhere, and frankly it's not even that attractive! But I felt the need to, because when Anthony, the owner of GGP was giving me a tour, he literally grabbed a handful of the mowed grass to emphasize the fact that they really put every single scrap of anything really to use, as a resource for farming. I don't know much about farming, but I thought it was cool that these big corporations actually come in every few months to donate massive amounts of grass, which GGP can use to its advantage efficiently. Since this object was so close up, I wanted to emphasize each of the pieces of grass so that people's eyes immediately become sucked into the image of the grass (wow that sounds so weird)
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Well since the whole GGP project was essentially designed for volunteers to grow crops and give them to the needy, I thought it was only appropriate to take a wide screen ish shot of their garden. Which, fyi, I really didn't do it justice, the garden is beautiful! I did the best I could by brightening up the image by changing the contrast, as well as in the "color variations" tool, I took advantage of the handy dandy tool "Lighten" to just make all the plants look all the more fresh and apparent.
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