Re: Photoshopping, YES or NO ?


"ShibbyShane" <ShibbyShane@xxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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Mind you, it's an interesting discussion, but will not be
properly covered in a USENET thread. It's one of
those perennial topics associated with photography
that has no proper answer.

Well people can at least give their opinion can't they. In my opinion
both can be good depending upon how they look. If a picture come
straight out of the camera looking pristine then there's no need to
mess with it; but if a picture need a little contrast tweak or whatever
then so be it. You want that picture to be as close to what you
remember, so as to provoke the same feelings you had when you were
inclined to take the shot. Or maybe you just want the picture to look
crazy so you manipulate the crap out of it. :)


Like I said, it really *is* an interesting topic, and
I predict it'll be one of those threads that goes on
forever.

Who among us hasn't been asked, from time to time,
"Did you manipulate that photo?" I'm always at a loss
on how to answer that question.

99% of what I do is "straight' photography, even
with regard to cropping. I wanna hurl when I see
a photo that's been cranked to the max for color
saturation, or had a fake sky pasted in.

By the same token, I'm not above fixing up an
image to make it look better. Whatever that might
mean at the moment. That almost always involves
some tonal manipulations, at the very least. Or
I might clone out some distracting detail that
escaped my attention when I snapped the shutter.

Some of my favorite images have been scanned
multiple times and printed multple ways. My
taste -- even for the same image -- evolves
over time.

And frankly the main reason I don't do heavy,
surreal, bizzare or artsy manipulations is because
a) I lack the imagination for that, and b) I lack the
inclination and skill for that. I'm really just another
geek with a camera, and not ashamed to admit it.

I absolutely agree that the quality of the original
image is all-important. You can't make a silk
purse from a sow's ear.


rafe b
www.terrapinphoto.com


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