When I take photographs, I hope to find spaces and places and landscapes that people don’t notice, or that people don’t pay attention to, and to bring out their beauty, but even then I sometimes find it difficult.
I don’t know how to capture it, especially when the sky is indistinctly clear and lightly overcast.
The rainy season has yet to begin, but due to climate change, every day in Tokyo is now like the rainy season.
When the clouds are not clearly defined and the sky does not look like it will clear up for a while, and yet there is no sign of rain, when I take pictures of buildings and trees, I end up with backlighting and everything looks like shadows, which I cannot capture well with my current skills. Of course, I could edit it later using retouching software, but that is not what I want and it would look unnatural.
Even though I am not a professional photographer, I have enough skills to teach Photoshop and the like in my work, so I can easily identify retouched photos even on the small screen of a smartphone and find subtle unnaturalness immediately.
I sometimes think that if I were a more professional photographer than I am, they would laugh at my hobby-level photo editing.
I think it’s important to know how to deal with those cloudy days.
Retouching is an afterthought. I sometimes take photos with that in mind, but I don’t like photos that are retouched and edited.
I feel it is important for me to know how to deal with this lightly overcast day in the first place.
It’s been two years since I started using a camera, and I think it’s time to face what I’m not good at.