I've been working hard to become a more technically proficient photographer, resisting temptation to use any mode but Manual and striving to achieve proper exposure right in the camera using available light, proper shutter and aperture numbers, ISO, etc. just like a "real" or traditional photographer. I kinda began this photography business backwards, since I was really pretty good at using Photoshop to make my point&shoot images look like they were better than point&shoot images. But I was determined not to be one of those "shoot and fix it in PS" types...
So lately, I've become confident enough to actually spend some time on playing with some recent images, not to make them look "better" or "more professionally finished" per se, but to experiment with styles; have fun, if you will. There are so many great photogs out there selling actions and settings and although they may make the workflow a bit faster, I just can't bring myself to purchase them at this point. I just feel that it is buying someone else's style and I'm stubborn enough to want one of my own! Even if my style turns out to be similar to Kevin Kubota's Cross-Process or THe Boutwell's Magic Glasses, I will know that my styles originated in MY computer, in MY creative pea-brain :) Stubborn & cheap. THat's my story and I'm sticking to it...
The one at the bottom left is the original file, Straight Out Of Camera. I named the others as hints to myself about how I processed them.
TGIF! xxcris
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