I’m used to looking at the pictures I take one at a time, rather than side-by-side. Whilst at soccer practice this evening, I took a bunch of photos of the sunset and of things lit by the sunset. Later I looked at them several times–one at a time–and as usual had trouble deciding which I liked best. Some were, as usual, clearly not so good; but also as usual, some were close enough that I just wasn’t sure. After a while, though, I managed to weed most of them out.
Then I went into LightZone to edit one of them. By default, LightZone shows you a set of large thumbnails of the photos in the directory. Suddenly I could see all of them side-by-side. And I was amazed at how a few of the twelve pictures I’d kept simply jumped out at me. They were clearly better than the others.
I’m going to have spend more time looking my virtual contact sheets on a virtual light table.
(Oh, here’s the picture I wanted to fix up.)
The View from the Foothills 
Hey, I can see the pictures now, at least on my computer at work. I’m going back through old files to see what you’ve posted. I’ll have a look at home to see if I can see them there. Could be because the CS Dept here has modified it’s censor software.
Why did you want to modify this picture? It’s a terrific study in black and gold – very artistic, actually. I like it!
Mark
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Mark, you’re looking at the version I fixed up. 🙂 Almost every digital picture can use a little help to look its best: some level adjustment, maybe a little more saturation, some sharpening (sharpening is almost always required). This version isn’t grossly different from the original, but it looks a little nicer.
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