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About 25 years in the past, I used to be significantly into motorsport images. I’d go to a meet, shoot off ten or extra rolls of movie and hope to have half a dozen keepers. My first DSLR (a Nikon D70) paid for itself in a single season, in saved movie buy and processing prices, however that’s one other story.
Almost 20 years in the past, I used to be headed from my residence in Bristol (within the southwest of England) to Brands Hatch in Kent to shoot a spherical of the British Touring Car Championship with my second DSLR, a Nikon D200.
My route took me previous the historic website of Stonehenge, simply because the solar was developing. I really stopped, poked my digital camera via a gap within the wire mesh fencing, took a fast snap after which carried on to the principle occasion.
Back at residence within the night, I pored via all my pictures of the assorted races and pit-lane actions, glossing over what I assumed was a relatively disappointing Stonehenge shot.
When I was a kid, my pro photographer dad told me that painters had it easy. If they didn’t want something in the picture, they’d just leave it out. Overhead cables, unsightly rubbish and other paraphernalia were of no consequence to them.
Photographers, on the other hand, had no choice but to include all the clutter within a scene. Suffice to say that Photoshop and other photo editing software wasn’t around when my dad was in the business.
I drove past Stonehenge again earlier this year. The original road that ran along the north and east of the perimeter has long been buried over and you can’t get near enough to take a meaningful shot. Unless that is, the site is open – in which case it’ll be full of tourists. That’s when I wondered if I might be able to do something with my old dud photo, after all these years.
Having grown up with the mentality of ‘always’ keeping film negatives in shoeboxes for posterity, I never delete my digital cameras’ RAW files. I simply shuffle them off onto hard drives and solid state drives, keeping multiple copies in different places, just to be on the safe side.
It only took a couple of minutes to locate the RAW file. And it only took a few more to open it in Photoshop, correct the white balance to bring out the sunrise colors, darken the sky, clone out the fencing and pedestrian walkway, and to end up with an image that I’m really very happy with.
With hindsight, it’s much more interesting and memorable than my countless motorsport shots. I’m just really glad that I didn’t get rid of it back in the day, after being initially unimpressed with it. Never hit delete!
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