Natural light vs artificial for photographs

Some days, it's just really hard for me to get all my winter gear on and go outside for photoshoots.

It's so cold, and I never warm up anyway... and I think that maybe, just maybe if I do it just right, the pics inside will turn out good enough with the help of a touch of editing.



So I go to the brightest window we have...

set up my background...

Take several pics before the camera's battery dies...

Upload and start editing...

and realize no amount of editing is going to fix this hot mess.

Finally I pull myself out of the chair and comfy house,
brave the cold and wet, 
and just do what I should have done in the first place and take GOOD pictures OUTSIDE.

Really, the pictures make all the difference between an item selling or sitting.  And even affect the price that an item can sell for.  If the pictures stink, the sell stinks.  

The proof is in the pictures....

Here's the inside pic, before photo editing, straight off the camera.

murky, dark, yellowish and just yuk.

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Pic after trying to get the color right and lightened up... 

and ending up with the color WAY off on the background and the clothes 

and a real poor quality feel to the whole thing.

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Pic outside, after sucking it up and braving the elements, straight off the camera...

The white is true white, the jeans are closer to the real color, and the 

photo has more of a realistic feel to it.  

(Just a few clicks to highlights and clarity on picmonkey.com and voila!)
DEFINITELY makes all the difference!  

But, you know that all winter I'll be trying again and again to stay warm and avoid the outside...

and then ending up out there anyway.

It's just better that way.