I don't pretend to be a great photographer, but it's a hobby that captures my interest more and more as time goes on. Yesterday,
Adobe released
Lightroom Beta 4, so I figured I'd give it a whirl.
Lightroom is Adobe's professional photo workflow editor. It's free while in Beta as well!
So I wanted to use some new photos. So I headed outside and took some photos of myself with my backyard behind me. Here is what Lightroom allowed me to do with those photos.

For the first photo, I hit a setting that gave the sky predominance so I stuck with that. I'm not 100% happy with this one yet, so I may revise it still.

For the second photo, I wanted a pure B+W photo look. I like this one better because my face stands out more.