You may have heard that Desley has been busy preparing her next move to Melbourne, and for that she had to reduce her blogging activities.

So, please bear with me, as I am hosting the sixth installment of our Image Reboot – a partnership between Desley’s Musings of a Frequent Flying Scientist, with yours truly Lucile’s Photo101 Rehab Clinic. You can find the previous ones by searching for #imagereboot in the Reader.

Desley has learned the technique and mastered editing images with Lightroom. I use Lightroom  as well, and thanks to her, I have learned a more structured way to photo editing than my usual trial and error.

Now onto this month’s reboot.

I shot this portrait with a Olympus E-M10. I shot it after sunset and didn’t like the dull and flat way the image looked.

Here is the original, unedited photo.

I love monochrome portraits, but…