When I first got into photography in 2001, all I wanted to do was make my digital photos look like film. Scratch that—I wanted to make my digital photos look "cool." I couldn't knowingly identify film from digital just by looking at an image. Back then I had no idea what other photographers were doing to achieve the look of their work. I had a digital camera and I had Photoshop, and I figured it was just a matter of putting the pieces together.