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My photography glow up; 2018 vs 2023 😅
I dug into an old hard drive buried in the back of my desk drawers. It’s been years since I’ve looked at these photos.
Day after day on my first trip to India, I remember feeling so proud of the photos I was taking. I loved where I was in my style of editing too. I felt like the photos captured the essence and told a story.
Is there anything wrong with the photos from 2018? No. They’re decent. But as the arts artist, I’ve changed.The way perceive things, how I compose images, the way I use light, my gear, the types of stories I want to tell, the moments I want to freeze.
And while I do look back and critique a lot of the photos I took then; I’m acutely aware of the fact that my photography, as it is today, wouldn’t exist without my photography from then.
So what’s changed in 5 years?
The gear I’m using! I now shoot with the @sonyalpha 7R V and all Sony lenses. I love the Sony color science, customizable buttons and dials on the camera for ease of switching between photo and video settings, 61MP RAWs and the detailed EVF.
The way I expose an image. I used to under expose to preserve the highlights only to lift the shadows in post. To my eye now, this really crushed the blacks and flattened the image. Now, I use a histogram when I shoot to properly expose an image ensuring the most amount of data is captured allowing me to edit however I choose.
How I edit. I loved saturation, raising the black point to get a faded look, adding in a lot of contrast, warmed my white balance, increased sharpness and brightened the images using the exposure slider. I edited every photo the same, it was systematic. Whereas today, it’s dependent on the photo and location. But some global settings I typically adjust on any photo are: keeping saturation what it was in the moment, the white balance remains as close to neutral as possible, I decrease clarity, texture and dehaze, and I now use the color grading tool in Lightroom to add warmth or change overall tone of the image.
And those are just 3 things. The list is long as this art form is forever evolving with the artist.
#sonyalpha #photography
My photography glow up; 2018 vs 2023 😅
I dug into an old hard drive buried in the back of my desk drawers. It’s been years since I’ve looked at these photos.
Day after day on my first trip to India, I remember feeling so proud of the photos I was taking. I loved where I was in my style of editing too. I felt like the photos captured the essence and told a story.
Is there anything wrong with the photos from 2018? No. They’re decent. But as the arts artist, I’ve changed.The way perceive things, how I compose images, the way I use light, my gear, the types of stories I want to tell, the moments I want to freeze.
And while I do look back and critique a lot of the photos I took then; I’m acutely aware of the fact that my photography, as it is today, wouldn’t exist without my photography from then.
So what’s changed in 5 years?
The gear I’m using! I now shoot with the @sonyalpha 7R V and all Sony lenses. I love the Sony color science, customizable buttons and dials on the camera for ease of switching between photo and video settings, 61MP RAWs and the detailed EVF.
The way I expose an image. I used to under expose to preserve the highlights only to lift the shadows in post. To my eye now, this really crushed the blacks and flattened the image. Now, I use a histogram when I shoot to properly expose an image ensuring the most amount of data is captured allowing me to edit however I choose.
How I edit. I loved saturation, raising the black point to get a faded look, adding in a lot of contrast, warmed my white balance, increased sharpness and brightened the images using the exposure slider. I edited every photo the same, it was systematic. Whereas today, it’s dependent on the photo and location. But some global settings I typically adjust on any photo are: keeping saturation what it was in the moment, the white balance remains as close to neutral as possible, I decrease clarity, texture and dehaze, and I now use the color grading tool in Lightroom to add warmth or change overall tone of the image.
And those are just 3 things. The list is long as this art form is forever evolving with the artist.
#sonyalpha #photography