I always have to edit pictures over the course of multiple days. I tend to miss things in the excitement of the first edit and my mood affects the photos drastically. So now I've gone through this set of photos twice and edited some of the photos twice. I found some hidden gems too playing with features I hadn't noticed before in Lightroom. The landscape photos are taken by me whereas the photos of me - WHAT? a photographer modeling? preposterous! - were taken by my wonderful boyfriend, Mark Beaty.
This last one I cropped to this. I think it's pretty magical. Yeah, I used the word magical. Basically I love this picture :)
If you can't tell, the photos of me are heavily edited. That's because it was really freakin dark out! Mark turned the ISO up to 3200 towards the end determined to get a good shot. I think he succeeded. I missed editing. Goodness gracious. I miss taking pictures, too! I know I ought to do it more but I get so caught up in living and seeing the way I see. What I mean by that is that it is difficult to transfer what you see onto a sensor or film or whatever medium you use. The colors aren't right, the contrast is all wrong, and it's impossible to get people to focus on what you see... But sometimes you can get it right and that's amazing. I miss that feeling and I'm going to go after it. I plan on doing a photo shoot with Jasmine soon featuring her super awesome tattoo. Hopefully that will get me in the groove again and I'll start pestering all my friends to model for me :)
It feels good to take pictures simply because I want to.
