what am i doing?

February 14, 2010

organizing.culling.editing.undoing.deleting.

resizing.adjusting.layering.reediting.deleting.

researching.shooting.uploading.editing.deleting.

Trying to organize via similarity–aesthetic, or otherwise–several hundred, almost but not quite too many, photographs.

I am looking for some sort of cohesion. In a word?

Challenging.

Meanwhile, I am fumbling around with the Orton effect.

Cover to cover:

Portrait Photography by Mark Cleghorn

(increased my understanding of basic studio lighting)

Cover to page flipping for specific content:

skin by Lee Varis

(portrait retouching techniques)

before

after

slr/10