I don't even know if I was focussing on the drops on the window or tried to capture the little tree outside the train window. Oh well, so many pictures are a side effect, a bit of luck, timing gone right or precisely wrong - ending up in a 'lucky shot'.
I don't agree with photographers who say you have to throw away your shots. How often have I gone back to 'finished' photo edits and reconsidered shots I thought were worthless before?
I'm quite emotional about the editing of my shots right after I come back from a trip or experience. I want to share that feeling! Share those awesome sights! I edit, wanting you all to see what I saw, to feel what I felt.
But that also means: I share too much, I share too intensely, I want to overwhelm you with all the things I feel. I'm less objective, I have no eye for the place of the work in my portfolio, and so on, and so on.
I often create my best edits, or well - we can disagree on that - but my most loved edits after a longer period of waiting, after being less emotional, after working the shots into a series that I can bind together.
This shot I totally overlooked at first: I tried to enhance the yellow and green in the shot, but it just didn't work the way I wanted it to be, so I threw it away, a bit frustrated, because whoaaa the landscape was so pretty! Why couldn't I show it to you all?
Now I edited the shot into a moody picture, enhancing the drops, caring less about the colours and more about the shapes and details. I adore the end result and this is temporarily my favourite photograph in the Dirty Train Window series.
Let's see which one wins that honour tomorrow :-)
Linking all previous photographs in these series takes up too much space below my posts. But I've linked all the photographs up until #20 in the post where I also give a little peak into the making of a photo book on the series: 'The making of a photo book #1'.
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