modern photography

One of the many things I love about digital photography is how easy it is to improve pictures after they are taken. I do something to essentially every image, from cropping to major rearrangement of contents, colors, light/shadow, etc.

For a long time, I had thought about Photoshop, but the price is really out of sight. Then they offered us a subset -- Photoshop Elements. I bought it before I got my digital camera, and had used it a few times, but I've been using it heavily ever since I got the camera.

I love Elements. I am pretty much self-taught, though I did work through a "classroom in a book." I would find it impossibly restricting to go back to film and dependence on luck to get everything just right.

This image was cropped, and tilted (I must have tipped the camera sideways when I snapped the pic), and the jellies were all washed out, so I zipped them up. The owl's eye was a sort of distracting blue green, so I dulled that down.

I can remove dog hairs from most things, I can clean up splotches on windowsills, I can make purple swim warm-ups look PURPLE even when they photograph blue.... I am really IN CHARGE of my pictures, and I LOVE it.