Photo by Steve Berardi
When you get back home with your camera after a long day in the woods, do you rush to your computer and inspect your photos immediately?
I think that’s a healthy obsession, because it simply means you’re passionate about your results and dying to find out if you captured that sight just the way you saw it with your own eyes.
However, this rush to review your photos will often cause you to overlook some of your greatest shots. That’s why its important to look at your photos again–a few weeks, or even months after you took them.
For example, a couple weeks ago I was on the Oregon coast, and witnessed something truly amazing: the colors of the sunset reflecting on the sand. Here’s the first shot I picked out the night I took the photo:
Photo by Steve Berardi
And, the photo at the beginning of this post was the photo I just discovered tonight, while looking back through my old photos.
I like the “new” one better for a couple reasons:
- Better exposure
- Better white balance (which resulted in better saturation and truer color)
- You can’t see it in the small version, but there are a couple of seagulls sitting on the large rock (I didn’t see this before!)
So, keep all your photos (even if you think they’re bad at first), and keep going back to look through them. Sometimes you’ll find a new gem, because:
- You’ll be looking at them with fresh eyes
- You may have learned something new since you took the photo (so, you’ll look at the photo in a new way)
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