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Anyone who edits photos in Lightroom understands that modern photography captures both reality and artistry. My goal when editing photos is to make them more c

Anyone who edits photos in Lightroom understands that modern photography captures both reality and artistry. My goal when editing photos is to make them more clearly express how I felt or how I saw. This is often quite divorced from what shows up on the back screen of my camera.

l-lousy 6y ago
It’s also very useful to be able to take a tighter crop of an existing image without worrying about pixelation
perardi 6y ago
I think photography has always been about artistry. You are taking a 2-dimensional slice of a 4-dimensional world. Interpretation is inherent. Ansel Adams was surely no stranger to post-processing. https://photofocus.com/photography/a-look-inside-ansel-adams-darkroom-magic/ https://photofocus.com/photography/a-look-inside-ansel-adams...
- yccs27 6y ago
  There is a difference between normal post-production (cropping, defining colors, adjusting brightness, removing noise, ...) and adding details that just aren‘t there in the raw image.
  - fastball 6y ago
    How so?
    - mrob 6y ago
      One involves geometric meaning (e.g. edges, Bayer artifacts, clipped highlights), and the other involves semantic meaning (e.g. sky, faces, eyes). Dodging and burning is in the latter category and is equally deceptive.
      - fastball 6y ago
        Noise removal isn't semantic meaning?
wlesieutre 6y ago
That was true of film photography and development too