Backstage Kokoro
A "behind-the-scenes" look at selected images in my Kokoro project —
Content, photographic notes, EXIF data, creative process, miscellaneous commentary, and original digital captures. And now with additional audio comments about selected images!
From Kokoro #039 - A Few of the Billion
If a photographer does the job correctly, no one ever knows how much work went into the final print. That is, no one knows how much was changed in the final print from the original film or digital capture. Sometimes, I change a lot, and this image is a case in point. Take a look at the original digital capture using the link below to see just how much I did change.
There is a school of thought in photography that one shouldn't do this — or at least, shouldn't need to do this much post-exposure manipulation. In a perfect world, I suppose they are right. Unfortunately, I don't live in that world. I make mistakes; I change my mind; I sometimes have to work quickly and intuitively; and sometimes — rarely — I get it right in the camera. Great! But if those were the only images I could show based on the "no-cropping" edict, I'd be in big trouble.
Instead, I'd like to think that it's the finished image that counts, not the talent (or lack thereof) that I have for making something perfect at the moment I press the shutter button.
Original digital capture (downsized for the web)
1/250 sec at f / 5.6, ISO 100, Panasonic DMC-G1, LUMIX G VARIO 14-45/F3.5-5.6, 45 mm
Brooks Jensen
If a photographer does the job correctly, no one ever knows how much work went into the final print. That is, no one knows how much was changed in the final print from the original film or digital capture. Sometimes, I change a lot, and this image is a case in point. Take a look at the original digital capture using the link below to see just how much I did change.
There is a school of thought in photography that one shouldn't do this — or at least, shouldn't need to do this much post-exposure manipulation. In a perfect world, I suppose they are right. Unfortunately, I don't live in that world. I make mistakes; I change my mind; I sometimes have to work quickly and intuitively; and sometimes — rarely — I get it right in the camera. Great! But if those were the only images I could show based on the "no-cropping" edict, I'd be in big trouble.
Instead, I'd like to think that it's the finished image that counts, not the talent (or lack thereof) that I have for making something perfect at the moment I press the shutter button.
Original digital capture (downsized for the web)
1/250 sec at f / 5.6, ISO 100, Panasonic DMC-G1, LUMIX G VARIO 14-45/F3.5-5.6, 45 mm
Brooks Jensen