On my way…
to becoming a better photographer? Today I asked my photography professor to take a look at one of my scanned color negatives (negatives from a manual camera) to see if I was on the right track with my editing. He told me that he was really impressed with my work, and that he did not tell people that often.
None of my work was done using any “auto” features. I meticulously tweaked curves, tones, color balances, saturations, hues, noise reducers, and sharpening to get that piece of shit image on the left to the still-in-progress result on the right. Okay, you probably got none of that. Bottom line: made my day.