I just realised the other day that I haven’t taken a single photo since the last day of my trip to Europe, September 10th.
That’s a whole month!
It’s not that my passion for the pursuit has in any way waned, it’s just that when I got back I found myself with 2,200 photos to sift through and process.
This always takes time, but recently I’ve been doing way more post-processing to my pictures. That’s because I started shooting in RAW instead of Jpeg and I bought some professional software to enhance my work.
All of this makes processing a photo much more time-consuming, and to be honest, I’m not really sure if it’s worth the effort. Looking at the pictures I took last March in Europe, most of which had little or no post-processing, I can’t really say that they are any worse than the ones I’m ending up with now.
I’m beginning to suspect that RAW is an emperor’s new clothes type thing, to be honest – a lot more hassle for minute benefits that most people will never notice, but it’s hard to go back.
Anyway, I’m still only halfway through the stack of pictures from France and Portugal, and I can only manage to process five or six a day at best, and while this is the case I don’t want to add to the pile by taking any more.
Damn computers – they simultaneously enhance our lives and overly-complicate them, and there’s no turning back the clock….
Last Friday, however, as I was walking down the hill from the University to the monorail station I suddenly felt inspired and whipped out the iPhone to capture a few scenes.
and am now off to the train station to take the TGV to Dijon.
