Day 836 of 365 Again.
Stayed up late tonight working on editing the photos from that shoot the other day. They’re looking for a quick turnaround (in fact looking at the literature they expected I’d be mailing them a CD the next day) but I just don’t work that fast. I guess I could just take photos right out of the camera and send them, but I just… CAN’T. Even if my name isn’t on something, if I know it’s my work, it just has to be done.
99% of traditional photography happens in the darkroom. And to me, digital photography is no different. I actually HATE looking at pics that came just out of the camera. Seriously, everytime I hear someone say that it’s more honest to do it that way, I just want to scream. Seriously, if you see a cell phone pic here that I took, I probably did post production work on it. Maybe I’m just neurotic. I prefer to think I’m an artist.
Luckily, now that I have Lightroom instead of just Photoshop, I can speed a lot of the work along. And I devised some macro actions in PS itself to speed up the processing with batches. But still, I wanted to do even more. There’s a lot of digital retouching that I’d want to do on almost every shot. But I don’t think I have the time.
I really need to learn to let go. *sigh* I still have to finish making my way through that wedding I shot two weekends ago.
You’re totally sniffing that photo.
I really should try Lightroom again. I found it soo frustrating and destructive when I tried it before.
I really like this photo. Great concept.
I feel you on the SOOC sh*t! It seems an artist’s work is never done.
This concept and execution are awesome!
I thought it was just me with the post production stuff. I figured I was just so unskilled that EVERYTHING needed work. Little did I know that I was an Artist! Thank you!
@SaylaMarz: yep… its digital chemical processing. I’m really wondering what it was that you were doing in lightroom before. It’s actually built around the concept of non-destructive editing. That’s the whole point.
@Jack Scoresby: thanks. I was really hoping to get across the concept that it was a lightroom and the opposite of a dark room, which is why I overlit myself. Not sure if it worked out or not.
@thehalfshow.com: yeah, I totally don’t get it. Everyone always seems so proud of themselves for pulling SOOCs. Like its something special or artistic. I’m just kinda "but its not done." Not sure how much work I can do for this company if that’s what they expect.
@lrayholly: oh, nope. I edit everything. Really, with most digital cameras, you at least want to run an unsharp mask over the photos just to compensate for technical limitations. But really, there’s so much more I always feel the need to do.
@SaylaMarz: Mav is completely right. The whole point behind Lightroom was to be NON Destructive. I actually do a lot of tweaking "Photographically" in Lightroom first, and If I need more, export to Photoshop.
Cool concept here Mav. I am actually in a process of creating a photo hanger "line" on my daughters wall so she can display her favorites.
@theshape: I don’t bother with LR on my daily photos or anything like that. But it’s really nice for shoots where I have a bunch of photos with similar exposures that I want to work with. And it’s also nice since it means I can use it’s better interface for initial RAW tweaks rather than the PS RAW plug-in which is nice, but not nearly as good.
Cool ~ you are the man when it comes to creativity!
@macaddict: thanks. I haven’t felt so much like it lately, so that’s nice to hear.
nicely done
@mv4: thank you.
haha very clever idea
@☼ Helder: thanks. I was happy with the idea.
wow. that’s one i never thought of. nice.
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@excalipoor: thanks. I’m actually quite happy with it. It’s the most creative 365 I’ve done in a while. i thought I’d make explore, but I guess not.
Love this photo … might have to steal the idea in six months 🙂
@RXAphotos: thanks… but why wait that long?