Pastel Sky, looking like a water color. That wasn’t my intention, but that’s what happened.
In this day of all things digital photographers are trying to make their work look like anything but photography. I understand the need to take things to the next level. I do it myself more times than not.
Just don’t force it.
It’s more of a Zen-like approach for me. I try to let the scene teach me how to take the picture and the picture try to show me how it should look.
It works most of the time.
That’s why my work looks all over the place sometimes. In fact, I think as I build new portfolio pages for Storyteller I’m going to group images by color and hue rather than by subject matter.
I saw a friend’s bookshelves organized that way and I thought it was just the coolest thing. I don’t imagine that you could organize a public library that way because you’d never find anything. But, for home or office… why not?
Yeah.
Why not?
The cold is the cold. Managing to make a picture look that way is something else.
This picture was mostly the result of seeing rather than developing.
The picture looks cold because it was cold when I made it.
I didn’t have to do that much to it to make it feel that way.
I used only one technique. I minimized the structure and just barely sharpened anything. That brings a water color look to the finished image. It also plugs up the shadows which makes them look a little moody.
Stay safe. Stay mighty. You know the rest. Enjoy all the color.
STORYTELLER 
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