When I first walked into this small bookstore in Nyack, NY I was a bit overwhelmed. There were books stacked everywhere! The biggest thing I struggle with is finding interesting subjects. I feel like anyone can take a technically “good” photo, but it’s much harder to do that while finding something that an audience will want to view. I knew there was potential to get some great shots in this store. Overall, I came away with this one photo. But I LOVE this photo. I knew the second after I took it that I would be spending a lot of time in Lightroom trying to get the edit perfect.
This I felt was the first time I went in with a vision of what I wanted and was able to execute on that. I knew I wanted a lighter, more 35mm film look. And I wanted to colors to feel a bit older too, think 70s interior design colors. Contrary to the older look I wanted to achieve, I also knew I didn’t want the whites of the books to appear yellow. I felt that would push the idea that this was a photo of something old, where I wanted it to feel like this is something old, but when it was new. If that makes any sense!
Before and after below. Also I want to say, shooting in RAW is a lifesaver and Lightroom denoise is fantastic.
