I had a lunch the other day in a small restaurant near my work. They have quite some nice decorations and I’ve spotted this instrument. A series of four images (as the instrument was hanging high, I couldn’t get closer) in one of my b/w settings.

Some say that editing is part of photography. It might be, but I don’t like to do it at all. I did it when needed for weddings. I will do it when needed for a commercial assignment. For non-commissioned work I will use as less editing as possible. I want to have it right in the camera as I like it, ready to be printed and shared with my friends. I shoot JPEG and selected the camera which fitted my color pallet, as I would have selected a film in the old days.

That said, my long exposure portraits (‘seconds’) are all shot in RAW and than processed to TIFF. From there on wards I convert them to black & white. Editing is not used in this process: the faces are untouched by any brush or whatever.