John Suler's PhotoPsychology
Leaving the Dark Ages
This shot is of that little pagoda-like structure in the foreground of the previous shot, taken at the Fonthill Museum. It’s another example of something I mentioned earlier in my photostream. Sometimes a badly underexposed shot (see below), one that you might otherwise throw away, can be restored quite nicely – for example, by using the shadow/highlight feature of Photoshop (I did a few other adjustments as well on this one).
The downside is not knowing when to throw a shot away! My thinking lately is that if a shot has a decent composition, or the potential for a decent composition by cropping, and if it’s a unique shot in that I didn’t take another one like it… then I’ll keep it, even if the exposure or focus looks terrible. But if I’ve taken multiple shots of the same scene (in order to get the exposure, focus, or composition just right), then I might delete the ones that were less than optimal.
Leaving the Dark Ages
This shot is of that little pagoda-like structure in the foreground of the previous shot, taken at the Fonthill Museum. It’s another example of something I mentioned earlier in my photostream. Sometimes a badly underexposed shot (see below), one that you might otherwise throw away, can be restored quite nicely – for example, by using the shadow/highlight feature of Photoshop (I did a few other adjustments as well on this one).
The downside is not knowing when to throw a shot away! My thinking lately is that if a shot has a decent composition, or the potential for a decent composition by cropping, and if it’s a unique shot in that I didn’t take another one like it… then I’ll keep it, even if the exposure or focus looks terrible. But if I’ve taken multiple shots of the same scene (in order to get the exposure, focus, or composition just right), then I might delete the ones that were less than optimal.