In the past month or so I have completed rethought my photographic workflow. What I discovered was that I was taking too many shortcuts and working too fast missing my vision for creating photographic art. In other words, I got lazy.
In 2010 I began using Adobe Photoshop having switched over from Corel PaintShop Pro because I felt like the Corel product was holding me back. Two years later, I added Adobe Lightroom which served my purposes well, up until the past couple of years at which time I started to become complacent and lazy, as I recently discovered after having taken some Photoshop courses through f.64 Elite , which I would highly recommend if you are a photographer using Photoshop and want to create works of art.
In my previous workflow only about 10% of my work ever went to Photoshop. Now, 100% goes into Photoshop, not because the photographs “need it” but because that is what I believe to be the best tool to achieve my vision.
Photographic art isn’t about merely technical capturing of a subject or scene but it is about creating an experience for the viewer. In the featured image, my goal was to give the viewer a sense of a brewing storm rising over a symbol of the past which I believe is what is happening with the current social climate, not just here in the United States but world-wide.
Let’s create art today, we need it more than ever.
Photographer Clay 
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