Tuesday Tips #304 – Finding Your Way through Documenting

One of the beautiful things about documentary photography other than its honesty is it’s lack of post processing it calls for in the end. Well balanced black and whites and clean colors are all these photos call for. Keep it honest in the edit, stay away from all things “perfecting” – skin smoothing, cloning and definitely the liquify tool. Let the frame be as you shot it, aside from the necessary crops for print purposes. Items scattered around which would be deemed clutter in your regular sessions are just additional elements to your story and a thoughtful marker for time and place.

“Acceptance looks like a passive state, but in reality it brings something entirely new into this world. That peace, a subtle energy vibration, is consciousness.”
-Eckhart Tolle