Running... Again?

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  If you know me you know there was a time about 10 years ago or so where I was running. A lot. At least 5 days a week and at least 5 miles a run. I wasn’t training, I wasn’t preparing for a race or a marathon. I just found myself enjoying the time spent running. I wasn’t obsessed with numbers, but I kept track of them all and liked seeing improvements in time and distances. It was good physical health and mental health. Then I tweaked my knee. Not bad enough that I couldn’t walk on it, just a tweak that told me I needed to back off of running for a little bit. So I decided on 2 weeks. At the end of 2 weeks I aborted a run very early as the pain was still there. 2 weeks became 3, became a month, became 5 years. 

Blue Hour Pier Re-Done

Blue Hour Pier
Blue Hour Pier, Corrected
I don't think I've done this before here, but I'm posting a correction, of sorts. Yesterday's Blue Hour Pier was written on Wednesday. The photo was taken about a month ago and I only yesterday processed the photo. I had posted the straight out of camera JPEG of this shot about a month ago on Google+, but knew I wanted to do a little work to it before I put it on the blog. Well the minute I saw the photo go up yesterday (Thursday) on some of the other photo sites I post to I instantly disliked it, which is kind of embarrassing because I got a fair number of likes on these sites.

So what happened? First, and probably the biggest mistake, was that I used the JPEG version instead of the RAW version to do my edits/processing on. If you can shoot RAW, do so it makes processing so much easier. Then it was a matter of having a light touch in the editing to get a little more detail in the railing and clouds. The grunge look on the pier itself is gone, which is what I really had issue with, and the clouds don't look over cooked. Then I took a suggestion from a friend and cropping out the dark area  right at the front/bottom of the original shot, which I ended up liking.

I think this is a better look to this shot, and I hope you'll agree. So what did I learn from this? First, don't edit your photo the same day you're going to post. Give it at least a day to sit and then look at again. Second, make sure you're working with the RAW file and not the JPEG. Though I typically only shoot RAW now, it doesn't hurt to double check.

I've included yesterday's photo at the bottom so you can compare. Click the photos and use the arrow keys to switch back and forth between them in the lightbox.


Incorrect Blue Hour Pier
Original Blue Hour Pier

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