It’s always fun, and sometimes time consuming, to go back to the archives and look back on what I’ve done in the past and where I am now.

I often find myself stopping back somewhere in time and pull out an ‘old’ image to edit with nowadays technique and tools.

The picture below was shot way back in 2009 at the Botanic Garden using a Canon EOS 5D, an EF 24-70 f/2.8 L and ONE speedlight, the Canon 580 EX (yes, the first version).

The place where I took this shot is no longer the same and it seems from my last visit that the water feature has dried up..

Even with tools as much sophisticated as the ones that we have now at our disposal, there is no much thing you could do if the image lacks of details, contrast or poorly lit.

There are lots of complaints around the net when a new camera is released in regard of the maximum number of pixels that the manufacturer could cramp onto the sensor or either the ISO can not touch the moon.. and return.

Photographers seem to worry more about what is inside a camera than what they can do with it. Big names in photography have used and abused this camera with only 12 megapixels with amazing and outstanding results and it appears still to be a very reliable tool for virtually almost assignment.

Remember, a camera can only be as good as the lens you put in front of it and YOU, the photographer, are the one who create the image.

Model: Nicole Foden

Designer: Vicky Kidd-Gallichan | Rockstars & Royalty Couture

MUA: Melissa Delfino

Photo by Thierry (http://www.nomadphotography.com.au) for Australian-Photo.com

Before & After. The left image is as shot straight out of the camera. The right image is just edited as a personal vision of the concept.

Click on the image to enlarge.

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