Image composite starting from a Hong Kong street shot. All the visual effects (smoke, flare, color grading) created by BorisFX Optics.

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I'll be sitting on set, minding my own business, when all of a sudden I'll see the sun doing some magnificent bit of...shining, it'll be in an excellent spot in the sky, maybe a few clouds up there, and I'll see someone taking a picture, maybe someone from the camera department, and I'll think to myself, "these folks, I could smoke them all, line us up, gimme a model, let me at that sunlight."

Even worse if someone's taking a picture of someone else on set. "I could smoke this fool so goddamn fast, go over there and show 'em how it's done."

If you can believe it, I was arrogant Before I became a photographer. Thousands of followers, likes, comments later...not healthy! Not healthy at all!

So usually, after I have a thought like that, thinking I could take the photo better, I'll have another thought: "I'm a worker among workers." One among many. It's not about who's better, or who's best, or who could do it "right". It's people enjoying themselves, expressing themselves. Nobody says, "I sure could ride that rollercoaster better than that other guy", because that's insane.

But that's art, that's what I gotta keep reminding myself, keep that little arrogance demon in its box. It's not about who's doing it better, it's about who's having fun. If you're having fun, you're doing it right.

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Working with snow owl was a dream coming true
It was pretty cold and I always try to do it as faster as possible.

I did a this shoot with 135 mm f 2.0 lens, my favorite when it comes to portraits.

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Photography @jovanarikalo
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I've talked about going back at old photos, re-editing them...but I swear, it's a blast. Sitting on this one for a decade, this edit is so much better than I'd left it, way back when. It was slightly blown-out, back then I didn't know how to restore a photo's highlights, or that I could play with the saturation a bit, rather than rely on color temp...the edit I had sitting on my computer, so much was lost to the shadows, put those back...I guess I understand why George Lucas went and put better special effects into the original Star Wars films, I get it, I see photos of mine come up here on Flickr, I do wish I could re-edit a bunch, but it's memory as much as a discrete piece of art, a reminder of where my skills were at the time.

If I'd already posted this, I'd have felt the urge, but would've left it.

Fortunately, I didn't, so I didn't!

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