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Today I tried to catch up with a backlog of digital pictures. I wholly appreciate that digital photography affords me the opportunity to improve my pictures — I can correct exposure and color balance problems, and I can crop to improve composition. The cost of this is that it takes time: I processed 90 photos in about 5 hours.

The reason I bother with this time-consuming process is that we print our photos and stick them in books. It’s pretty easy to make huge improvements to most images in 1-3 minutes per. Some images take longer; the payoff for this investment in time is recovering a nice image from what initially appeared to be a ruined shot.

Here’s a representative quick correction. (Click to see a larger version. The original is on the left… I hope that’s obvious.)

This image could be improved more, I’m certain. There are techniques in my favorite image-repair guidebook that I haven’t attempted yet.