god, i wish i could even bring myself to look at the techie stuff at all... i have always had a resistance to it and my ability to take the photographs i would like to take suffers for it. using digital helps with me, because it cuts out some variables, and is all wysiwyg, which helps enormously. i was never great in the darkroom, even more things to go wrong...
it sort of helps that i have never considered trying to be 'a photographer' - and photography per se has rarely been the finished work for me. i don't look at images as a photographer, and if flaws work then i feel happy to work with them. and wherever i have 'presented' photographs, it has been rather more content driven or just accepting what the camera found (when i used to post to citynoise the only post production work i did was to crop off the 'invisible' information and change to 72dpi usually)
i admire your intention and drive to improve. and, for the record, i think that is a great picture. very zen!
Very early in my photo-taking, I discovered that things that came straight out of the camera didn't look like what I saw just before I put the camera up to my face. The difference disappointed me and inspired me to figure out how to post-process images to get them to match as closely as possible to what I saw. And I've always been a sort of do-it-yourself person
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you are right, there has to be motivation. i have certainly known things in the past about photoshop - i even taught it. but i forgot a lot while i was ill and not doing any pictures, and now i have gimp, and do very little with pictures, having to work out how to do in gimp what i forgot or never knew in photoshop... but with some energy and will i can still do a bit, but am aware of my shortcomings.
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it sort of helps that i have never considered trying to be 'a photographer' - and photography per se has rarely been the finished work for me. i don't look at images as a photographer, and if flaws work then i feel happy to work with them. and wherever i have 'presented' photographs, it has been rather more content driven or just accepting what the camera found (when i used to post to citynoise the only post production work i did was to crop off the 'invisible' information and change to 72dpi usually)
i admire your intention and drive to improve. and, for the record, i think that is a great picture. very zen!
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