One preset to rule them all (or maybe two).
Photography
When it comes to photography, there is always the need to edit our
photos and give them a little punch, as they say, at least for me. For
years, I have used many tools to accomplish this, including
Snapseed, VSCO, and Darkroom. I never ventured too much into tools like
Lightroom, I have always found them overwhelming.
My software of choice for the past year or so has been Darkroom,
primarily, on iOS/iPadOS. The app has gotten better and better over the
years, I’d even dare say comparable to Lightroom. On its most recent
update, they added the ability for users to share their presets which is
super-cool and all of them are great. I have
downloaded just about all of them to my devices. Although having all
these remarkable presets and options to edit my pictures is nice, it
also presents a problem, the problem of choice.
Whenever I sit down to edit my photos, I find myself “scrolling”
and adding all these presets and choosing whichever gives me the results
I like. But that also means that all my pictures have different “voices”
rather than one voice that defines my
style of photography. Perhaps I am severely overthinking it, but I
prefer to have fewer choices. That being said, not every photo I take is
taken under the same conditions, so perhaps my go-to preset, might not
suit a specific shot, which makes having choices a good thing.
I am definitely overthinking this!
Maybe I just need to pay more attention to which ones I use the
most and delete the rest. So far, I find myself using the same two, one
of the app’s default ones. For black and white, there are three
different ones I go to that have been shared.