Non Stop Editing

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Non Stop Editing
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*Cazza in colour*

I guess I'm not the only photographer that overthinks their images.  I do feel in these days of *Instagram *and *Tik Tok* that photography has been dumbed down a little.  Don't get me wrong I am under no illusion that I am a budding Rankin.  I know I'm pretty much an average jobbing photographer.

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*Cazza in black and white*

But I do have a bit of (misplaced?) pride in my work.  I like it to be as good as I can make it.  And this is where the over-thinking comes into play.  I open an image in *Lightroom* or *Photoshop* and sometimes I really don't know where the editing process will end.  These shots, I took to present as black and white images.  Of these first two shots the first one is the original colour, edited as I wanted it and then the mono conversion (and a bit of a crop).


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*Striking a pose*

I tend to edit. re-edit, edit again, or take it back and start over.  I really don't have time for doing this, but unless I have a specific outcome in mind I will play away, often having multiple "finished" images.  I can guarantee that the one I end up posting will not be my favourite further down the line. Sometimes doing a quirky edit - because I think it might work - can waste hours of my time until I decide I don't like an image and put it on the back burner. 

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*Portrait*

It's expensive in storage, I have portable hard drives, cloud storage and, from way back, DVD's full of images.  I did have a major clear out a few weeks back and by being ruthless I managed to free up terabytes of space.  The point being, perhaps if I was more focussed with my editing, and plan before I start the post processing, I wouldn't waste time (or space) and perhaps be a more efficient photographer.

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*Will the editing ever stop*

But then, where is the fun in that?  And talking to photographer friends I am not to different from a lot of them.  One friend has a system where he edits and then numbers as follows.  Pic 1, Pic 1 WIP, Pic 1 WIP-v2, Pic 1, finished, Pic 1 Finished V2, and so on.  My storage spaces have directories that are full of similar named images.  Perhaps a lot of us are not as efficient as we would like to be.

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***About me:***






I can mostly be found shooting models, aviation, motorsports and, when I can, wildlife. But I enjoy most aspects of photography.  You can find more of my work on the links below.




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