Just updated my photoblog – Seen Thru This Glass with a few more photos taken in 2004. One of my fav so far is a photo taken of a few old movie posters at a corner in Little India.
If you see the original (see below), you’d realised that there’s quite a bit of Photoshopping done to achieve what it became. I’m not ashamed to say that many of my photos have gone under the knife, so to speak. Partly because my photography techniques is not up to par for me to achieve almost perfect shot every time, so the need for touching up. But another reason is that touching up, allows me to give life to my photographs, giving it something extra.
If you compare the original, it might just be a photo of 3 movie posters, slightly torn and faded. By giving it a bit of touch-up, I feel that I give those posters more life than just being there. A story is being told as you look at it – a story of how short-lived, the lives of these Bollywood stars.
Some purist might frown at the amount of digital manipulation some of these newly developed tools in the market. To me, they are my pens to write the story, to give my photo a life.
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