Recently I have been compulsively learning and progressing in the area of photo retouching. Lately I've been extremely dissatisfied with the mundane repetition that is Adobe Light Room. I found myself in a rut of taking photos, applying very similar styles to all of my photos and then releasing them to clients or to the web. Where is the challenge? There is very little artistic satisfaction in knowing that anyone else with a decent eye for composition could push a few sliders and recreate almost pixel for pixel the exact "retouch" of any one of my images. This is what started my journey to become more individual in every way with my final exports. I've been spending at the very least 45 minutes to an hour on all my current photos... going through hours of tutorials and thousands of adjustment layers. With every image I export and every new technique I set to memory I can feel my artistic satisfaction filling again. Here are a few of my recent works in progress...