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Re:Thoughts on cameras in the age of excellent cell phone ph... by AuryGlenz on Wednesday June 03, 2020 @02:14PM (#23406699)
I'm a pro, and I absolutely despise going back and looking at images of mine that are just a few years old. It's amazing how fast that eye develops when you're doing it often. I bet if I posted all of last year's weddings in full people could judge which ones were earlier in the year vs later. In Minnesota that's just a 4 month window, and I've been working professionally for 6 years.
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Re:Thoughts on cameras in the age of excellent cell phone ph... by mceachen on Wednesday June 03, 2020 @03:51PM (#23407859)
What aspects of your older work do you not like? Is it your "eye" (subject framing), or technical details (like nonoptimal camera settings or wrong length glass), or something else?

Thanks for sharing your other comments, btw.

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Re:Thoughts on cameras in the age of excellent cell phone ph... by AuryGlenz on Wednesday June 03, 2020 @04:12PM (#23408078)
Oh god, pretty much everything. I would say the largest thing is editing, including simple things like color balance and overall exposure. My retouching used to be awful, but to be fair to myself very few photographers have the retouching skills I know have. A bit of it is overall composition, lighting, etc.

In short, there are images that I used to be really proud of that now are honestly a bit torturous to look through.

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