It took me two days to edit my new Hokkaido images. As much as I always set aside a whole week to do such a task, I have found that usually by day 2, I’m done. The work is mostly there, and I just need to now sit with it and see how it ages over the next week or so.
Above is the final portfolio. I’m quite happy with it, but I did have to go through a few revisions to get to this final version.
In particular, I struggled with getting the right depth to the darker tones, and I went through a few revisions. First starting off with a much lighter, softer version of the set. On day 3, when I chose to review the completed set, I felt they could go a little darker, so I did just that and was sure I was now complete.
It was only on day five, after taking some time away from the work that I felt they could go darker still.
So here is the previous revision, before I went darker with the blacks. I hope this is informative for you. The main uptake from all of this is that sometimes I have to sit with the work for a while to notice where it needs more work. I do sometimes have to go back and rework images because I feel I haven’t used the full tonal range at my disposal (I don’t have to do this of course, some work requiring a narrower tonal range). But in this instance, I felt the blues in the set could do with being deeper. They slowly became a ‘thing’ for me with this set.
Here is the previous revision. I would compare them to the final set above. Not to say that one is better than the other (you may prefer the previous revision). More to point out that as time goes on and you live with the work, things may be altered and I often have to do this until I feel the set is just right.
