So as I mentioned a few posts back I have been sorting and re-sorting and filing and categorizing all of my old files. Something that was long overdue and greatly needed… One thing that I found while comes through the files was thin image above. Granted it looked nothing like this when I started because back then I was all about experimenting and tweaking Settings and White Balances and when I looked at this shot when I got back to the computer IT SUCKED!! It was a drab mess of a white balance that was set so cold that the whole image was a lovely shade of purple 
So back when I first saw this image I said forget it, and it has sat for the better part of 4 years on a hard drive taking up space. Now 2012 roles around and I am sitting at my desk and I see a file that says Lessons Learned.. A file that I started a long time ago with images that were pretty much the bottom of the barrel, I screwed something up somewhere, or I was temporarily insane at the time of shooting. But, I kept this file around so I could look back and see where I have been and what mistakes I had made so that I wouldn’t repeat them again.
Long story short I come across this images and think to myself: This was shot in RAW I can change whatever White Balance I want!! Ok, before the jabs come out with the “DUH josh you could have done that back in ’08″ I was younger and not so level headed (or at least that is going to be my excuse at this point)
So long story even shorter. I dropped this into Lightroom 3, adjusted the White Balance to something I liked. Even then the color image just didn’t work for me so I went with my favorite tool of choice Nik’s Silver Efex Pro 2.0 and went to town on this image. A few sliders here and there a touch of structure and BAM! an image that I though was at the bottom of the barrel is no one of my favorites and is already sitting on my wall in a nice 24×36 frame.
So lesson with all of this rambling? Keep your images, hard drives are cheap and you never now what you will find when you go browsing…
