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Editing or capturing the photo?
What do you enjoy more, the process and organization of capturing the photo or the editing side of it? This question crossed my mind recently. I know that many, if not all, professional landscape photographers on YouTube that I follow emphasize that they want to be more outside, on the field, taking photos than editing. Which is understandable. So, many of them are using presets to help them finish edits faster, or they have some other ways to finish their work on the computer sooner.
As far as I’m concerned, I’m not a professional nor will I ever be. Photography is my big passion that I discovered most suddenly, where I escape from mundane life, and I want to keep it that way. I enjoy more editing than going out. And don’t get me wrong, I go out quite often and enjoy walks in nature immensely. It’s just that I get some uplifting, warm feeling in my chest when I’m at my computer, with some background music that I like, viewing the photos I’ve got outside and preparing to press the Lightroom icon to start editing them. That’s why I’m not a big fan of the presets. As I’m not rushing myself, and not working with many files at once, I actually enjoy moving sliders left and right and right and left. And I’m not going to describe my editing process and all the back and forth that I’m doing in that process because I could write about that forever. Let’s just say that I’m a big overthinker.
Anyway, finally the cooler weather has arrived and with that, we had some misty mornings recently. A few mornings ago, I prepared myself to go out and explore conditions for some atmospheric photography. I’ve got, among many others, this photo. The light just came up. It was not that foggy morning, but there was some moisture and mist in the air. So when the light hit these trees I was prepared to capture the image. I was just looking for the right perspective for it and I’m absolutely chuffed about the final image.
So, I’ve got my first autumn photo for this season. Looking forward to capturing, hopefully, many more as the season progresses and the colours start to appear more and more.
Editing or capturing the photo?
What do you enjoy more, the process and organization of capturing the photo or the editing side of it? This question crossed my mind recently. I know that many, if not all, professional landscape photographers on YouTube that I follow emphasize that they want to be more outside, on the field, taking photos than editing. Which is understandable. So, many of them are using presets to help them finish edits faster, or they have some other ways to finish their work on the computer sooner.
As far as I’m concerned, I’m not a professional nor will I ever be. Photography is my big passion that I discovered most suddenly, where I escape from mundane life, and I want to keep it that way. I enjoy more editing than going out. And don’t get me wrong, I go out quite often and enjoy walks in nature immensely. It’s just that I get some uplifting, warm feeling in my chest when I’m at my computer, with some background music that I like, viewing the photos I’ve got outside and preparing to press the Lightroom icon to start editing them. That’s why I’m not a big fan of the presets. As I’m not rushing myself, and not working with many files at once, I actually enjoy moving sliders left and right and right and left. And I’m not going to describe my editing process and all the back and forth that I’m doing in that process because I could write about that forever. Let’s just say that I’m a big overthinker.
Anyway, finally the cooler weather has arrived and with that, we had some misty mornings recently. A few mornings ago, I prepared myself to go out and explore conditions for some atmospheric photography. I’ve got, among many others, this photo. The light just came up. It was not that foggy morning, but there was some moisture and mist in the air. So when the light hit these trees I was prepared to capture the image. I was just looking for the right perspective for it and I’m absolutely chuffed about the final image.
So, I’ve got my first autumn photo for this season. Looking forward to capturing, hopefully, many more as the season progresses and the colours start to appear more and more.