Up until now, I haven’t put any pictures up on this blog unless it was a supplement to what I was writing. Most of the time, they weren’t even my pictures. However, for those of you who aren’t friends with me on Facebook (if you aren’t, how the heck did you find out about this blog? Any of my Twitter followers that care are also my FB friends) know I take pictures. Lots of pictures. However, this is a relatively new phenomenon. Up until about this summer when I got an iPhone, I didn’t really care about picture taking. I was a video-only kind of guy. But now, here I am, taking pictures left and right. Maybe my dad’s rubbing off on me or something (his side-job is running Blue Sky Photography).
Anyway, over on Facebook, I just flood people with picture after picture. For my blog, I was planning on maybe adding a daily/weekly/sometime thing where I put up a picture chosen by me that I think looks pretty good and kind of stands out from the rest in some special way. I would touch up any pictures I feel could be any better to make like a “definitive” version.
So, I went to my pictures from summer vacation to start. I chose a nice little sunset picture from I think the first or second night. Here it is:
I think it’s a pretty decent picture. But I wanted it to bebetter. So, I opened up Adobe Lightroom, a photo editing program. And I touched it up. And tweaked it. And changed it to the point where I doubted whether I should even be doing this. I had tweaked colors, changed some exposure stuff, used brushes, cropped, and all that good stuff. But was it even worth it? In the end, it’s still the same picture. It can only get so good. But was it already good in the first place? Or was it bad to the point of not trying to save? Was this work worth the effort? I don’t know. I’m just kind of left with this picture staring at me. And it doesn’t seem much more special than the original picture. Perhaps even less so because I know it’s not quite as “natural” as it used to be. Or was I just enhancing the natural beauty that my iPhone that day had failed to completely capture? Well, I guess I’ll let you guys be the judge of that. Here’s the “updated” photo:
EDIT: I feel it’s probably worth noting that in these pictures is my dad taking a picture of my mom. Those aren’t just some random people.
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