It’s easy to forget when you take delivery of completed images that there can be quite a difference between the image captured on camera, and the final finished product. Over the next few days I’ll be sharing a few examples of images in the their unaltered and processed states, to illustrate how plenty of creative decisions, and important changes, happen between when the image leaves my camera, and when it is ready for sharing.

For this image to work properly, different areas of the image had to be processed separately to ensure that each element worked to enhance the overall image. In this case, the snake, leaves background and log were all processed differently to make the final image as striking as possible.