shadow and noise

a pile of wood

a walk through the french quarter

a glass of rosé

a pile of wood, a walk through the french quarter, and a glass of rosé - that's how i spent last sunday. normally i don't care much for the trucage that is so popular in photography right now. i appreciate the effects but don't use much or any of it on my own images (i do love to tweak the contrast, though, and occasionally cannot resist the sepia button, however cliché it might be). maybe i'm a purist or maybe i'm just lazy. but i'm often left wondering if a given image would stand up without all the saturation and whatnot...

these three shots, i can tell you, would not. they were all lousy - boring and terribly lit. but i do love me a good pile of wood. and after a few glasses of rosé, a backyard wine bar seems like a perfectly reasonable spot for a portrait... anyway, all three were destined for the virtual dustbin, so why not experiment a bit? over-expose. de-noise. hyper-saturate. it almost works.