When It Comes to ____, I'm a ____.

When it comes to PHOTOGRAPHY, I'm a PERFECTIONIST.

Whether its setting up my subjects, the editing process or the actual physical action of taking the picture. Everything needs to be perfect. Even if one thing is off about a photo, I would scrap it until I could fix, or else it would bother me every time I looked at it. So I go through a lot of things sometimes just to create the "perfect picture".

One thing I feel that must be perfect is the lighting. It's one of if not the most important aspect of a picture because it can make or break your photo. There's no point in taking a picture if you can't see what you're taking the picture of. The same thing with the settings of my camera. The F-stop and exposure are the main settings that need to be perfectly calibrated according to where I am.

I usually have my friends as models, and in that period I'm not the nicest. When I have a vision in my head I really want it to come to life, so I'm a little strict when it comes to telling them how pose or what expression I want them to have, especially when they start goofing off, which is a little frustrating. But I always appreciate when they do model for me and I love the feeling when I finally get the "right" picture.

The editing portion is just as important as everything else. I would never pass up the opportunity to make my picture look even better than it already was. Every photo can use a bit of color correction as my photography teacher would say, but, you need to be very careful to not over saturate for example. You can make a photo too yellow really quickly so I always make sure that I pay attention to that. I also use tints very hesitantly. I can't just go all willy nilly for color correcting, because, unless it's what I'm going for, I want whatever I've taken a picture of to look as natural as possible. Like nature pictures for example, I usually add more yellow tint in order to make the grass greener and the plants and mountains brighter. But, if I add a yellow tint to a portrait, I can make the people in the picture look like the Simpsons, which is a big no no.

There is also the editing method of cropping which is one of my favorites. I've taken many landscape or nature pictures and the subject is beautiful but there's an ugly car in the corner. With cropping I can easily just cut out what is making the picture worse rather than enhancing it.

Of course I've only been in photography for a year, so I'm still learning all of the ropes and adjusting to editing, but I will always try to produce and post the best pictures that I possibly can to correctly represent me.