June 24 Photo Excursion

Two weekends ago a friend and I went on another photo excursion though, unlike previous excursions this one actually had something of a purpose. Mostly of excursions are purely for the fun of photography and while this one was still with the same intent it was also to get photos of his local neighbourhood. And to get photos of powerlines. Yes, powerlines. So, invariably, we had some very inspiring shots emerge!





Anyweather, with the powerline photos out of the way, we moved onto the more standard RixelStudios fare... Flowers, landscapes and the (different) stuctures indicative of civilization!







A few photos I fiddled with to make them more pleasing (in my minds eye) and the above bench is one of the more glaring examples of this. Believe it or not I didn't initially take that photo in black and white. Though I'm sure I could have if I actually wanted to go get a film camera, black and white film, develop it manually, then scan the resulting image. Fortunately things like Photoshop exist today which eliminates a lot of those steps for me!

Now, simplistically, the photographers job always remains the same: to take amazing images. In the current digital age this goal is still the same. The difference is that now we have the ability to take an average image, remove the ugly aspects easily, and make it a good, great or amazing image through digital processing. However, everyone and their dog knows you can do this (even if they don't know how) so the trick then becomes to do so in such a subtle way that, for the average layman, they either don't question the authenticity of the photo or don't do so openly. Or, alternatively, if they do they are completely wrong and it wasn't manipulated to get that result. The latter is what we all aim for but only the fool doesn't take advantage of the tools he has in his arsenal.













And that's that for now, so we'll see you next time!