From Forgettable to Favorite

During my photographic journey I have gone through many stages. In some of them the photographic edition was more than editing, in others it was a basic development, with the necessary adjustments of contrasts and perhaps some crop.

Although it is true that when I feel more satisfied is when the photo leaves the camera almost finished, then I feel that I have done my job well.

The most drastic retouches used to be done more in the past, for several reasons. I took many more photos, sometimes without having a clear criterion of what I wanted or without knowing how to do it better, or just for fun, there was a time when I didn’t mind spending hours in front of the screen.

Nowadays, I take fewer photos and may be my creativity is not up to the standards of other times. Lately, I almost always settle for what I see, it will be the age or that my photography vision has changed…

Perhaps my most creative touch-up time was my experience with the O.O.B. “Out of Bounds”. This technique requires taking many steps and using many layers in Photoshop. Someone told me it was almost like doing cross stitch.

This time my creativity was focused on the idea of capturing the smoke, which made me forget to frame well and that the light was the right one. So later I had to crop the image, remove the stains, darken the background…

And when I discovered the HDR? Wow! the photos seemed to have a life of their own. I must say that this stage was short-lived and did not convince me, in the end I always tried to use a very soft effect, for me it was too dramatic the result. Although I have to confess that, at present, I have activated the HDR on my mobile… 😜

In recent times, the most drastic changes I usually make are trimming to square format and converting to black and white. As in this case, where, in my opinion, the color did not contribute anything and cut the area below seemed necessary.

Posted as part of Lens-Artists: From Forgettable to Favorite

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