Does everyone edit their pictures?

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Permalink Reply by Ron Lashley on March 11, 2012 at 5:19pm

Dave, you are doing it right.  You will find most seasoned photographers use the RAW format which produces a much greater (though not as great as HDR) tonal range.  This allows you to bring out areas in shadows and highlights or can give you a better tonal gradient on other pictures.

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Permalink Reply by Carrie Bullard on March 27, 2012 at 9:59am

I imagine every person has their own way that is why we are all unique. What one likes to do maybe someones else hates. But it all depends on what you want, no mater what, a camera can not create what your eye is seeing. everyone strives to show with their pictures, what they saw with their own eye. Even when you get into HDR photos you may think in your mind that the scene your seeing is straight out of a cartoon well thats what you try to show whoever is viewing your pictures. Editing is done one way or another by camera, or PS, or developement the old fashoned way. How much or how little it in the eye the photographer and what they are trying to show you in their pictures.

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Permalink Reply by Marc Boudrias on March 27, 2012 at 6:26pm

Taking the shot with your camera is like doing the grocery, editing is cooking the meal. Having great ingredients helps a lot, but you can always scrap everything in the way you use them. But the opposite is also true...

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Permalink Reply by Edward deCroce on March 27, 2012 at 7:02pm

Great metaphor Marc.

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Permalink Reply by jack taves on April 29, 2012 at 10:01pm

 

 

in todays digital world and the competion to the craft there is no such thing as a perfect picture, so photograpers think they must edit to improve like what was done in the dark room with film just remember that beautty is in the eye of the beholder if you just love taking happy snaps that's fine in todays world all does not have to be perfect  just enjoy taking photographs to your own limits of love

jack

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Permalink Reply by Jack Potts on April 30, 2012 at 6:19am

Being a photographer, you are are artist.  You have the final say in what your end result will be.  Given that you have been blessed with the ability to make "adjustments" after the fact is total control of your creation.  Like a sculpture who put's on he finishing touches or a painter, there is no reason to have guilt or feel as though your cheating.  As others have pointed out, your camera "edits" to some degree.  I could argue that artificial lighting is editing as you are manipulating the natural surroundings of your subject matter. Enhancing an image is not an indictment of a poor photographer. Passing off poor work as acceptable is.

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Permalink Reply by Alex M. Souza on May 1, 2012 at 3:59pm

Enough to express what I wish the same way I did in the darkroom years ago.

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Permalink Reply by James Wood on May 2, 2012 at 6:46pm

Most of the photo's I've posted I try to keep as natural as possible. I admit I own CS5. I mostly use it to recreate the colors I was seeing at the time. There are the times when you see it better in B/W that is where editing shines. Good question Nicole,  

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Permalink Reply by Jennifer Barger on May 14, 2012 at 10:27pm

I shoot RAW, develop in Lightroom, and edit & crop in Photoshop. I present my clients with various options, including photos that are just about identical to their RAW counterpart, and photos that I've retouched and run through various Photoshop actions to get a desired effect. It just depends on the photo and what the client expects. I ALWAYS get rid of blemishes and other transient flaws like that. (dark circles, bug bites, bruises, etc.) Shooting RAW is the absolute only way I'll ever shoot from now on. Since I started shooting RAW and developing my photos myself my stuff looks WAY better.

Do you think any photos you see in publications are shot any differently? This is the way most of us do it these days. Once you try it and see what's possible, you'll be hooked too!

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