**DISTRACTIONS**

Do you find the title of this post a little distracting?  Like someone is yelling at you?  Well, it's supposed to.  Just like this title, sometimes pictures are distracting because something pulls your eyes away from the main subject.  Take the first picture below for example. What is distracting to you?

If you're like me, the twigs coming in from the left side almost ruin the photograph because they pull your eye away from our beautiful bride and her mother.

The same picture is shown below with the twigs removed.  Do you like it better?  We do. Much better. You will also notice the digital post-processing in the second image to enhance colors and make the Bride and her mother "pop" more in the photo.  (See our older posts on digital post-processing.)

Of course, it is best to avoid distractions like this all together by not including them in the image, but that's not always possible.  In this case, we were not going to prune any vegetation in the church's courtyard, and this was one of the few places in the area offering acceptable light, and we made the best of it.  We think it was worth the extra time in Photoshop removing the twigs.  Don't you?

As we've said before, every single image we make is inspected for color, contrast, composition, exposure, and many other things including distractions.