I’m a big fan of culling back through my images and experimenting with filters and effects to draw out the interesting from an otherwise dull picture. I have a lot of images that are composed very well, but for whatever reason (bad lighting, dull colors, distracting object) they are in the trash heap.
What the author of this article saw, presumably, when he went through this image, was a soaring tower. He saw that it was composed well and had the opportunity to be special, if only that sky were more dramatic and that tower had more color and character.
Photography is art. Art is a form of expression. Don’t listen to the “purists” who say that they don’t like to manipulate the image cause it’s somehow not authentic. Those are almost always the people who aren’t willing to log the hours learning Photoshop and other digital retouching techniques. Every industry has “purists”. Beginning writers think that editing is not pure because it’s not how it came out when they were first writing from their heart. Experiment, experiment, experiment. Find your own voice and pursue what interests you. Every person is different in what interests them in photography. Follow the link below the image to read this great article…
LINK: How to Turn a Dull Shot Into Something Exciting
