I’m at that stage of an upsurge in photographic activity that I don’t want to stop to spend time processing the best of them just yet—I’m also busy enough that I don’t have the mental energy in the evening to really handle doing that well. So I fetched up a shot from a much earlier trip that I kind of like where I made some processing decisions that are maybe a bit much. (Here’s hoping I haven’t featured it before: Substack is hard to search…)
In this case, I liked the variations in the grey tones when I processed it as B&W but I was afraid the man talking to the children from the window got a bit lost, so I did a small amount of localized upping of the exposure around him. I don’t think it’s too exaggerated but it’s maybe a bit much or just too obvious—a more gradual spreading of exposure over that entire area of the building would work better.