I’ve written before about how I enjoy revisiting older images. The photo below is a good example. I took the photo three years ago, and even though I like the photo, I was never completely happy with the result. I can’t really say why I didn’t like it, but even after many hours of working on it Photoshop, I still wasn’t satisfied. Since I’m now in the middle of preparing for a couple of local shows in Central Illinois, I thought I’d revisit some of my local images.
A big advantage of digital is the ability to revisit older images and process them with newer technology, and technology has advanced quite a bit in the last three years. The new versions of Photoshop and Lightroom have all new processing versions, and I now have custom profiles for my cameras that yield richer and more accurate colors. Of course, I’m sure my own skills have advanced as well. The end result is that I was able to create a result that I’m happy with.
I also discovered a bonus during the process. As I was going through all of the images from the shoot I found the frame below where I’d zoomed in much tighter on the farm buildings in the distance. (The image above was shot with an extreme wide-angle 16mm lens, the one below was shot at 75mm, which is a short telephoto.) About all I needed to do in Photoshop was crop the image into a panoramic format and adjust the brightness.
