How often do you hear that? People are on vacation, a family outing, a business trip even. And they see something that really moves them. So they whip out their camera, holed it up in front of their face, cock their head back a little, squint their eyes and ‘click.’ They get their picture.
But they’re often not satisfied and you hear them say, “This picture doesn’t show it like it really was.” And they’re a bit disappointed. They image they tried to capture lives only in their memories.
Those of us that are, what shall I say, serious about our photography often do varying amounts of post processing with our images. I don’t know how many times I start with a RAW image that is, well, not very interesting. It’s not what it looked like or, more to the point, it’s not the way it felt. But I remember the shot and how excited I was. So I start taking it through my work flow. That’s what I experienced tonight as I started working on an image of an apple orchard near Fruita, UT.
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