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"Purist" photography is lot more impressive to me, if there is such a thing anymore, as you mentioned in camera effects etc. I enjoy a good photoshop job as wel
by Mendenhall 9y ago
"Purist" photography is lot more impressive to me, if there is such a thing anymore, as you mentioned in camera effects etc. I enjoy a good photoshop job as well though.
I think where it matters to me is when you are saying something is "authentic". Lets say someone is taking pictures of a beach for a resort advertisement. One could photoshop the sand to appear as some sort of rare pink color, but when you arrive that color will be nowhere to be found. Same thing if a news article has "beaches are more polluted than ever" and tint the beach to look green. That to me is akin to false advertisement.
I also agree people like and want photoshopped images since almost all photos benefit from a little tweek to saturation and brightness.
Just my 2 cents because I agree with all you said.
Sidenote if someone says "wildlife photography" and its not in the wild, its not wildlife photography.
- TheGRS 9y agoWhile I don't think he was airbrushing or anything, even Ansel Adams did quite a bit of work in post processing to achieve the effect he desired. All of that work has simply moved over to Photoshop where you can get the desired effect much more quickly than you could in a dark room.
- pythonaut_16 9y agoI think the key is that Photoshop and post processing tools should always be used to enhance the representation of reality, rather than distort it; except when showing something beyond reality is the intended goal. It can also be said that post processing can be used to cover up mistakes that were made when the image was captured, and as a photographer one should strive to minimize those mistakes. TL;DR: Photographers should do their best to do a good job when they capture an image and to be aware of what they are trying to convey in the final version that they share with the world.