"Playing" around...

Part of the fun of any photoshoot for me is "playing around" with the photographs. Creating art from the originals.

For those of you who don't know, my background is in art. As a child, I told everyone I met that, "I wanted to be an artist," when I grew up. And while it wasn't always the job that brought home the proverbial bacon for me, I have never stopped creating art. For most of the last ten years, I've worked as a graphic designer, web designer, and a product designer.

I wouldn't be me if I didn't keep coming back to a set of photographs and re-working them into something new. I like that one of my photographs can be soft and light at one moment and hard and gritty at the next. I love that emotion can be conveyed through vastly different post-processing, and I make no apologies for my ex post facto manipulations.

The image I made originally may have been captured by a camera, but I love taking it to a place that is more art than reality.

Here's a few I've "played with" this weekend from Bethany's Saturday shoot.