The world of digital photography is a million light years away from what i learned at photographic college, "back when i was a lad etc" where post production effects were severely limited. You could play around with contrast and grain with B&W printing in the dark room, but for colour, you pretty much took the film into a lab and relied on them to balance colour, saturation and contrast. Now you can upload your photo into a software package and come up with unlimited effects and corrections. So today i came back to the blossom trees in my garden, and added a few layers of soft focus, grain and played around with colour saturation and glow, to try to get an impressionistic painterly effect. Not very true to life, but pretty cool anyway i think, i just have to stop feeling i am "cheating" by using post production techniques!
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