Remember when we all had cheap cameras and we hated that our images looked like this?
But now we all have expensive cameras and we go to great lengths to try and make our photos look like we're still shooting with cheap cameras.
Tonight I tried my hand at photo editing in GIMP, a completely free photo editing software (comparable to Photoshop). I'm pleased with the way it turned out, except for that black dot on Sophia's head. Ignore that, my mouse got away from me for a second there.
It's funny to me that this does look exactly like so many photos from my childhood. I like the way the photo looks overexposed, the way the colors are muted and soft, and that you can see the light in Buddy's hair. Sometimes it's nice when photos don't exactly imitate what you see with your eyes. It makes it more magical, I think.
Anyways, by next week I'll probably be ready to start my own photography business. For a small fee your family and I will trespass onto someone's private property where I'll take your photos on rusted out pickups in overgrown fields. And then I'll stick your baby in a basket or something and photograph that. We'll just play it by ear until the cops come.
