snapshots

Oh photo editing how I am learning to love and hate you. You make my photos look worlds better than they do straight out of the camera yet, sometimes, you take so damn long to finish. I can completely understand why editing something like a wedding could takes weeks to do. Weeding out 1000s of photos and then having to edit them is quite the task, let alone my mere 100 photos I took in an evening that I'm just toying with.

I read some article about resolutions someone can have who likes to take pictures. There were 30 things and a lot of them didn't apply to me but that's alright, there were a few that did and they're stuck in my head. The biggest, most noticeable thing I read was to bring my camera with me even when I don't think I need to.

For example - Friday. I wasn't sure if a dark night club would warrant any good pictures but hanging out before and after (and the drive down) definitely did.
Here's an example of a before and after picture from this weekend.
Before and after.


A few simple tweaks and my crappy, taken-from-the-passenger-seat photo turned out to be sort of cool.

I put a handful of them out on flickr and there's an album on facebook. The downside to facebook is - it takes my pictures (everyone's for that matter) and squishes them. The resolution gets all funny and the sharpness goes away and it looks shittier. I don't see that as much with flickr, which I like.

Alright, one more set of compare and contrast and then it's off to bed.

Before & After...


I like how they turned out. They're all dramatic and stuff. ha. Check out the other pictures on fbook. Oh and random - I could put copyrights on the pictures but I don't know what to call them, or myself or the name that goes on the pictures...any suggestions, ideas, thoughts? I'm all ears.