I love cartoons, especially those from Looney Tunes. Their characters were priceless, Bugs Bunny, Daffy Duck and poor Porky Pig ( you remember him…” Aba De, aba de, aba de, …that’s all folks”). He had a hard time trying to say something when getting out his thoughts and would often just change his stuttering words to another. Like him, we can often do it as well, only visually.
The image on the right is the original ( jpeg ) as shot in camera. Nothing great about it, while it caught my eye, I reluctantly passed on it in my first edit.
A few days later I did a second edit and pulled out the same image. By applying some filters and effects I came up with the image on the left… maybe something with an artistic flair…
A few days later, in a final review, I couldn’t leave it alone, so I did a Wet Plate rendition. 
With digital , we could go on endlessly with just one image, regardless if it’s good or bad. We could try to make something better than what it was to begin with….
BUT the question is: Are we really making it better or are we just doing
” Photographic Stuttering “
Like Porky stumbling on his words, are we stumbling on an image, trying to get something out there and that might not be any good to start with ?
are we visually saying ” Aba de, aba de, aba de,…that’s all folks” ?
Leave your thoughts below?
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Having a universe of tools with which to edit an image is nice but the question is, which one gives voice to your work? Which one completes the image as you see it.?
Sometimes it takes various versions to discover what might really have initiated the desire to make the photo. What I find intriguing about the original is the colored reflecting rim of the wine in the glass, first minimized (with an added, inexplicable stain across the table and glass – or is it a spill?) then eliminated in the final version that seems to resolve the image as a whole. Whether the final image justifies the enhanced attention might not be apparent for some time, but the intermediate steps may find application for some other, more potent image.
Cary.. it is an effect in that program rendering what you might have gotten had the image been done as a wet plate B&W…
Repeated editing might be stuttering, but not necessarily. To say so, one should start from the rather presumptuous viewpoint that “I am so good at what I do that I get it perfect the first time”.
Masters in most arts are hardly ever satisfied with their own work, and when possible they keep “improving” it.
There’s no rule to say whether a piece of art was better before repeated editing or after; it is just the artist who may judge when the piece is ready to reflect his/her feelings/sentiments/emotions/thoughts/beliefs.
That’a a point…when Ansel Adams caught Moonrise over Hernandez, he knew he had a good image. He saw it before he shot it. Over time he printed it many different ways until he came to his final one. That to me is interpretation. Trying to perfect something that is nothing and has nothing to say, to me is stuttering… thanks for the comment, appreciated viewpoint.
Cary.. it is an effect in that program rendering what you might have gotten had the image been done as a wet plate B&W…