shutterbugger

don't tell jodi, but i'm learning to love the pants off of photoshop. besides making pictures all soft and warm (thanks to another heather's glow technique), its auto corrections make almost all of my photos look so much better, cleaner and brighter. that's the other thing, i'm learning that it's perfectly okay for me to use photoshop to improve my pictures. i used to think that they had to be perfect straight from the camera. then i realized that there is colour correction at the development level of film processing and why should i be expected to be a perfect photographer when i don't even have 100% manual control over my camera? it was entirely too much pressure to put on myself, especially considering i haven't a hope in hell of becoming a professional picture-maker. i'm just an amateur. i needed to cut myself some slack. ever since i did, i've been much happier with the photos i've taken and subsequently posted here to share.