This image is never going to hang on the wall of a famous museum -- it's more of a sketchbook snap -- but I still re-learned an important lesson by taking a second look and reprocessing it recently. My original approach to the edit was to force the result to conform to my mental concept rather than being open to what was actually present in the file and bringing that out. The other funny thing is that I was so hung up on technical flaws like blown highlights. Listening to self-appointed gatekeepers is okay I suppose, as long as you choose to ignore most of what they say. Become your own gatekeeper, I reckon that's the goal.
