This Is Why I Sometimes Look Over My Old Photos

[Tatts]

Sometimes i go back and look at photos i took a few years ago to see what i missed back then. At the time i was quite happy with it but it wasn't quite right. I left it and now coming back to it I looked at my original edit and could see such potential for it that i didn't at the time. Had a play and here they are side by side:
Original

[Phoenix]

I can see why you are happy.
Should call it the Phoenix, like out of the dead ashes appeared new life.
(-:

[Gordon]

Great shot and an even better reproduction in PP.

I am not even going to ask what it is, was.

Looks like someones crystal ball has cracked when they were trying to hard to look into the future

[Tatts]

Looks like someones crystal ball has cracked when they were trying to hard to look into the future

Haha, it was actually just an incandescent globe that i cracked open. Once you turn it on it burns out in a bout half a second. I took it a few years ago and it was hard to find any then, i think they'll be damn near impossible to find now unless you have some lying around the house in the back of a cupboard somewhere.

Lit from the side with a naked speedlite and the smoke is caused by the light burning out.

[millicat]

The newer version looks so much better. Goes to show how much you have grown in photography in various ways