This I like so much. An evening of complete relaxing. The lights in the living room are dimmed. Some candles are lighted. A concerto from Bach fills the rooms. A wonderful mood…
Marion was reading, but by now she is sleeping on the couch. A nice sight. She is fallen into a deep sleep. You can see that. I let her, she was very tired when she got here yesterday.
This weekend I am process of the photo’s taking at the party last week of the company where I am working. Nice work, but something you have to breaks regular from. At least I consider as something that makes you very quick tired, especially your eyes.
But I have now close to 40 photo’s done. Maybe enough for now, the rest might have to wait a bit.
Anyway, this brought me back to a question that has been asked many times: “Does every digital photo needs to processed?”
My answer to that is… depends 🙂
Personally I consider “cropping” or alike small actions not really as processing. But I do know there are people who think different about this.
Having said that… yes, the photo that doesn’t need any processing exists, but it is rare. In all thousands of photo’s that I made it happened only once or twice to me.
Processing means for me means making the picture of better quality. Not altering the reality. That is when altering the reality is not your specific goal. Look at the wonderful work of Miss Aniela and you will understand directly what I mean with “specific goal to alter reality”. I really love her work…
Anyway, my goal is not to alter reality. As my photo-site says “Photography is the skill to steal a moment from time”. It is for me to capture memories. To get hold of that one special moment. Freeze that one special sight.
Even more… I want to keep the reality as much as possible. Lets say, a picture made of Marion is her house. On the picture is a plant that is a bit in way or taking away too much attention of the real subject of the picture (Marion in this case), I would not (if possible at all) edit the plant away. I know that plant should be there and not seeing the plant would make it fake for me.
And so has everyone his/her way handling this kind of things. There is no good or bad in it… just different :P.
Ah well, I think it is time to softly wake up Marion, else she might not sleep very well tonight…