I tweeted yesterday that large format photography is like playing the French horn or the oboe: both these instruments can produce beautiful music, but are absolutely unforgiving if you make a mistake. One difference in photography though is the tools available to rescue a photograph, and the image in this post is an example of what can be done to “fix it in post.” The original image (taken yesterday morning using by 4×5 view camera, antique brass lens and paper negative) was severely underexposed, and was not flattering in terms of skin texture, but through the use of scanning and image manipulation tools I was able to bring enough of the image back to create a portrait I quite like.