I told you that I had started working on a book that would bring together photos of my 3 years spent in the streets of Aix-en-Provence. I have already made a selection of about 130 photos. I had paused this project because I was not satisfied with the processing of some old photos. The problem is that I no longer had control over these photos because I had lost the RAW files during a hard drive crash. Finally, I accidentally dropped the HDD on the ground and since then it no longer worked. I still waited 4 years before looking into the issue. So I sent the faulty HDD for a clean room data recovery. It cost me the tidy sum of € 800 …
So I recovered all of my RAW files from when I was using the Fuji XE2. These photos are all from 2016. The year I started doing Street Photography. My photos are deeply rooted in this not so distant time and yet I no longer recognize myself in these photos. I don’t deny the work I have done, but I don’t see myself in this aggressive processing. I had discovered Street Photography with Eric Kim who is a big Blogger who popularized this photographic style. Besides, I must admit that I copied his style because I liked what he did. I loved those dirty, grainy, high contrast photos. Since then my photographic style has evolved and I regretted not being able to retouch my old photos from 2016 … so I’m happy to have got my hands back on these RAW files to update photos that will surely be part of my book on Aix en Provence. I will present you some photos of 2016 re-processed in 2020. The difference is quite noticeable. I used reVision program which compiles the two photos to have a “before” “after”. You just need to move the vertical white bar.
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So glad you are happy with your investment, enjoy working on the rest of your photos.
A hell of investment ! Almost the price of a Ricoh GR3 ! But for sure more usefull 😉 I’m seeing from a new perspective all these photos made in 2016. Gonna write a blog on this
What with the largest collection of broken Ricoh’s in private hands in the world, we now find you give the same Jeff Cane-Mouye treatment to hard drives!
The problem with following trends is that it’s easy to become a “fashion victim”. Tastes change. I think these new treatments are much more subtle and will stand the test of time. You’ll want to look at this book in twenty years time and be happy with the processing. Undoubtedly the frames work however they’re processed.
€800…wow!! That said it’s money well spent, you’ll have those RAW images/negatives and that’s crucial for any photographer.
I’m pre-ordering this book by the way!
Chane not Cane…although…😉
It’s like the king Cnut! CHANE or CANE… 😂😂👑👑
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Guess what ? It’s the second Hard Drive that I pay to recover the data … The first one, it wasn’t my fault but it died. This one I plaid guilty. It’s a long way to a book John. It might take years or decades … And even if I manage to get something, it would be a pain in the ass to find a good printer here on the island. I made a photobook of our amily snapshots of 2019 on a website called Pumbo.fr and I received the books two days ago. Big disapointment … The book is ok, but the photos lack contrast … I have to call them to see why the printer decided to change the colour of the project I sent. The price was ok. 130 pages with a hardcover with B&W and color only for 22€ the book ! A4 format. I need to see why the photos were printed like that.
You get what you pay for. I’ve used Blurb before, a book for Sam on Mother’s Day. They did a good rendition of the photos, although looking back I’m not so keen on the actual photos I picked. In fairness it was 2014 and my photography has changed since then…I hope! Can’t remember how much it was, I think it was discounted through Adobe Lightroom. There must be a printer on Reunion? I suppose that’s irrelevant because by the time you get around to publishing there’ll be all kinds of new inventions and new printers…2060 will be interesting. Of course I’ll be a hundred years old, just hope I can still see 😉
You say you didn’t break the other hard drive, but I find that hard to believe, especially with your track record!
The process of reprocessing photographs from some time ago, especially when it is done with finalized photographs that have already been made public and therefore were considered satisfactory at the time, is very interesting.
Thank you for the idea.
Hello HP,
It was one of my concern when I decided to reprocess photos that some people have already seen and therefore assimilated to my work. The old man on the beach was one of these pictures.
But I wanted badly to work again on these raw files because I didn’t like anymore the process I used some years ago. Too aggressive and if I wanted to incorporate some of these photos in a potential book on Aix, I needed to reprocess them.
Glad to see you here HP. I go from time to time on your Instagram account but if seems to me that you’re not very active. What are you up to?