Here’s an old image from December 2008 that I just rediscovered. Some people like to immediately delete photos that they don’t use right away. I’m at the other end, I rarely ever delete an image. In this case, I had skipped over this photo and concentrated on a few others from the same shoot. As I was looking back, I noticed this one and immediately liked its potential. After some tweaking in Lightroom and Photoshop I’m pretty happy with the result. Once again this illustrates why I like digital processes. Sure, you can save your film negatives (and I do) but it’s not very easy to review them in the future. With digital processes, those old photos are readily available.
This is also a good example showing that you can sometimes find a good photo that you initially overlooked. Right after a shoot, it’s easy to get focused on one particular type of image that you’re after and overlook others. It’s always a good idea to let the images age a little bit and then go back to review them with a fresh eye. It’s not unusual to find a gem that missed on the first pass.
