Need something to do but want to be productive? Revisit your old files and take a fresh look at them. Perhaps you missed an interesting image or, it just wasn’t edited right. Here are three images that I shot in 2012 back in Kansas, where I grew up. 
This one I particularly like. I missed originally that it was sitting in a pocket of light shining through the trees. Once I started working on the file I also saw the subtle pink and magenta tone sitting in the low laying clouds. 
I was stoked. I’ve shot thousands of images from Kansas over the years and many views get a repeated look. Different times of the year, different times of the day. You never know where that special light will occur, or if it’s already in your images. Revisit….
My website: www.zwink.com Techy stuff: post production in Adobe Lightroom 5.
Being a smart shooter is knowing when to ask for help. I was recently asked to photograph this interior at UCSD for the builder. The primary use was to enter in a competition. The big problem was that the location was not going to be finished until the following Thursday, with the deadline that Monday. Thursday would be too late. So after a fair amount of negotiating my assistant Abbey and I decided to remove the cardboard off the desktops in the whole auditorium. After a quick call to my retoucher, Holly of Spitting Images we decided to remove temporarily the plastic off three rows of the chairs. That would give Holly enough of a sample to clean up the image. Additionally we shot a section of paneling which she also layered on top of the black wood to complete the retouch portion of the project. I then lightened the top projection screen and wal la……. image done, ready to send to the client.
As a pro you need to be a problem solver. When someone say no as the project manager answered when we asked to clear all the plastic we came up with another solution. Develop and utilize your resources.
Techy stuff: camera: Nikon D3, lens 14-24, image processing in Lightroom 3, Photomatrix and Photoshop 5. Additional retouching by the wonderful Holly Nelson-Kramer.
More of my work…… www.zwink.com
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Creative Views of a San Diego Photographer
This one I particularly like. I missed originally that it was sitting in a pocket of light shining through the trees. Once I started working on the file I also saw the subtle pink and magenta tone sitting in the low laying clouds. 
I was stoked. I’ve shot thousands of images from Kansas over the years and many views get a repeated look. Different times of the year, different times of the day. You never know where that special light will occur, or if it’s already in your images. Revisit….