Take Time to Revisit Old Work

Hi Welcome to my blog. Today’s post will be short and sweet. As you grow as a photographer, you learn more and more about your craft. Along the way you have been building a library of images. If you are like me, it’s filled with images that lets just say aren’t all your best work. Don’t let that body of work just sit dormant on your hard drive. Go back and look at all of your old images and play with them in post.

Technology keeps marching on so the software today can do amazing things with images that weren’t salvageable in the past. Also as you progress in your photography your talents as a retoucher/image processor improve. You must remember you didn’t just wake up today and know what you know. Take all of that knowledge and put it to use. Play with your old. “Non Keepers” and see if there is somthing artistic waiting to come out. You never know, one of those old images might just turn out to be one of your Masterpieces.

Below is an image that I took on vacation several years ago. The image just stunk, it lacked contrast and detail. It was a file that got passed over and never deleted. Now I am not saying the image is some master piece of art. I am saying that the image is much better than before and it is kind of interesting, compared to the original in camera .jpeg that I captures many years ago. Yes, I used to shoot jpeg’s.

A passed over image

An image that was revisited years later.

Thanks for taking time to visit my blog. I hope you all have a great day, Thomas Shue