Photo Apps 1: Introduction

In college, I would spend more time in the dark-room than I would doing anything else.  Graduating was a painful removal from my mad-scientist lab of creative bliss.  Along with this transition came the painful switch from developing my own film and the process of creating beautiful images to an impotent digital point-and-click guillotine.  I felt like the creative process was gone.  I couldn't play with the f-stop, shutter-speed, and was alienated from my final composition.

Then something wonderful happened.  It was like a peace treaty between artists and engineers, resulting in amazing and cost-effective applications that allow for the photographer to create once again.  The dark-room mechanized, and the chemicals became screen-shots.  The creative process was re-born; it was different, but I could finally enhance my photographs the way I wanted to, instead of just seeing the clicked image.