One of the basic “rules” in photography that I’ve heard over and over in the 25 years or so since I started to explore photography with more than a casual holiday shooter’s interest is to “Get Closer, Get Better Pictures!” While a good zoom lens is a good thing to have, there’s not really any substitute for using your feet to “zoom”.
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During the month of November I am not doing a lot of photography, due to it being National Novel Writing Month, and that tends to soak up most of my creative energy. It's fun to do something much slower, more introspective than photography from time to time. But since this is a photographer's blog there has to be photos...right?
So, this is a photo that is an "oldie", shot back in 2007 at the Wanås manor in Skåne, Sweden. I was there with my photo club, looking at all the sculptures and artwork that the place is full of during the summer months.
I shot this with a Canon point and shoot and haven't really done anything with it until today. I tweaked the saturation, brightness and contrasts in the picture a little bit, to make it "pop" some more, but other than that it is the way I shot it 7 years (!) ago.
It is (sometimes at least) fun to go back in your Lightroom catalogs and look at the stuff you did a year ago, two, three, four or in this case seven years ago, and find stuff you had almost forgotten that you shot! I also discovered that the ratio of photos I'd actually keep if I shot them today is a lot lower, but that's all part of the learning experience!