I'm totally impressed with the fantastic post-process editing this group can do.
I, on the other hand, tend to just do a few tweaks, such as cropping/straightening and a little dodging & burning. Here are two examples. And yes, I totally realize this is the opposite of simplifying, which I also admire and occasionally strive to do - but sometimes I like to play with the challenge of filling the frame.
Panic sets in that first morning without power when you realize you can't get to Dunkin Donuts for coffee!
You use whatever you have so you can see that peanut butter and jelly sandwich you are having for dinner.
For Comment--March, 2023:
Inanimate Portraits...
For a long time I've had more than a passing interest in taking candid portraits. Since we've been discussing, studying, and trying to name what we do as series, portfolios, projects, collections, etc., I remembered taking some of these images in the fairly recent past. The thought came to me to put a bunch of them together and see what came of it. I named the collection, and then checked on Google and was totally surprised to learn that "Inanimate Portraits" is actually a "thing". So, here are a few showing the wide diversity of images which can be included:
