A little pictorialism on a rainy night.

Original image with some color adjustment

More moodines to come

Normally I’m a “straight photography” guy.  A guy with his camera and all the limitations it brings, his vision and minimal retouching/repair. I’ve always felt that a lot of photoshop is cheating - especially when you start adding things that aren’t there. But all things in moderation right?

Tonight I’m posting some “constructed” images, heavily enhanced to evoke a mood or a sense of time or place. These images began as fairly run of the mill snapshots on the beach, shot with the Rolleflex on Fujichrome 100 (color positives). Dropping some infrared filters to make the blacks pop and layering in some blurs and vigneting to give it a vintage feel.

Results vary.