One of the many advantages of digital photography is the sheer amount of photographs you can take – it’s only limited by the amount of storage you have (on your memory card, your hard drives, your cloud storage, …).
One of the many disadvantages of digital photography is the sheer amount of photographs you can take…
That’s where the archive comes in. I’m sure every photographer has one? You file away all of your photos on any kind of storage device you like, edit the ones that you like most at the time, and then leave the rest behind.
Until the day comes that you decided to go back through these images, either seeking past inspiration, or just out of curiosity – and then all of a sudden you find a gem of an image just waiting for you. Why didn’t you notice it the first time around? Who knows? Anyway, that is the beauty of having a backlog of archived shots… you get to revisit and rework older shots and elevate them from their dusty resting place to a fresh new post on the internet.
This is an especially good thing to do when getting out and about taking new photographs is not an option (as has been the case for me over the past month or so).
The images below, all new, fresh edits were shot several years ago, waiting for the right time to shine:
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- I’ve been working through my archive of old, unedited shots recently, and so starts a small collection of seemingly random images that I shot in 2015 and I have only now gotten around to editing. This mini set starts here with an image of a horned knight. I will give you 10 bonus points if you can tell me where this was photographed.
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- There’s something captivating about seeing water droplets on flower petals. I decided to convert this image to back and white as I thought it could enhance the emotion of the shot.
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- A single, pale peach rose just as it starts to unfurl. This is another archive shot, taken from the summer of 2015.
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- Hanging upside down – I knew I wanted this shot to be in black and white, there’s just something interesting about the lines of the wood and the lines of the stripe top
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- Fuchsias are such interesting flowers to photograph – they’re all bright colours, and interesting shapes. Who could ask for more? Plus they’re tricky to spell.
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- This tiny carved cross can be found in the flagstones on the floor of the church on the Isle of Iona, at the bottom type of Mull, Scotland.
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- Another shot from my trip to Iona a couple of years ago, this elaborate celtic plate can be discovered in the church on the tiny island of Iona.
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- This enormous stone cross stands outside the church on the isle of Iona.
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- I visited the Harry Potter Studio Tour a couple of years ago, and took hundreds of pictures. This is one of those photographs, left in the archive for a couple of years to mature before being ready for editing and posting. The detail on the death-eater’s masks is incredible, especially when you consider how little time they actually appear on screen during the Harry Potter movies.
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- Another shot from my trip to the Harry Potter film studio tour – this one is a very tiny detail found on the inside of the chest that contains the quidditch balls… This probably had a fraction of a second on screen, and yet here it is in all of its glorious detail. They really put a lot of effort into making the Harry Potter films.