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52 Weeks Photography Project
August, Shadow boxing in the dark
I love editing post.
One of the reasons is historical: I did have a brush with & a crush on a Krokus enlarger as a kid, and it made a lifelong impression on me.
Nowadays, RAW and digital-post feel the same to me (swap out chemical burns for carpal tunnel syndrome).
Fuck around, find out, rinse, repeat.
It just Give Me Fever.
The other is circumstantial: I mentioned it before, I shoot with questionable cameras, and many ok-ish shots have to be saved on post from the woes of shit or damaged kit. Whether the cams are the problem, or I am the problem — and our overall relationship with gear — is a story for another time.
Bottom-line is still, as far as I am concerned: post is just as important to me as shoot.
I could save a lot of time just slapping on ready-made LUT from talented people of course — instead of bleeding out of my eyes on Capture One with questionable results.
But then, isn’t it what everybody else would do? (see: contrarian, guilty as charged)
So, for August — thinking outside of the box — and on top of the prompts constraints — or because of them — I decided to post like it is still 1945 — Sam Spade…
