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Nothing is more frustrating than spending hours editing a photo only to bring it onto another computer and have my perfect colors destroyed by an imperfect monitor. Every screen displays colors differently and every printer prints them differently. A hue that seems a neutral tan on one surface is suddenly bright yellow on another. It is rare to find a monitor and printer that are perfectly calibrated. Even at the professional photo lab where I work, where we check and measure the colors daily, the correlation is not perfect. I always have to make a mental adjustment when switching from one monitor/printer to another.

When I capture an image, I want everyone to see what I see. I’m recording my vision to share with the world. But nobody will ever see as I do, even when my vision is bared before you, stretched out on a canvas like a flayed animal. Look at the walls around you. The same paint on the wall in front of you looks like a completely different color that the wall next to you. I can’t control everything. Perhaps that’s part of the beauty of it.

When the shutter closes, only half the work is done. All photos must be edited, and sometimes retouched. This is a very time-consuming process and the results should not be obvious unless you compare them to the original negative. I’ve decided to upload some “before and after” images so you can see what happens when an image is worked over.