I think it's fine to edit a photograph that is strong on its own and does not NEED to be edited. If you're cropping a image to improve the image composition, if you change the contrast and brighten or darken the image that's totally fine in my opinion. I also often improve the color balance or even change the tones if It think it fits.
If you find yourself editing your images in order to correct them, and not enhance them maybe you should go back and try to take the photo again.
It is amazing how much you can do with Photoshop, Lightroom and co. Just take a look at this...http://www.animal-pics.de/thread.php?threadid=19402&threadview=0&hilight=&hilightuser=0&page=8
Some of my photos are almost not edited at all. Here I only changed the contrast a tiny tiny bit.
Some pictures need more editing. Here I cropped the picture, retouched the water drops on the blanket, changed the saturation and sharpened it a bit.
And I have no idea what happened to this blue streak in the die. First I thought I accidentally did something in Gimp but it looks like that in the original as well?? Weird.
Sometimes I make them black and white.
Sometimes you can tell my pictures are edited. Sometimes you can't. This is a really honest post and here I'll show you some before/after pics. Sorry to disappoint you, not all of my photos are out of cam... I will only post examples where I actually edited more than changing contrast. The last one is edited quite a bit and I want you to know that sometimes I like to create totally new pictures. If that makes sense.
its so weird, the die looks like you edited it badly, the blue smudge on the lower left corner looks like you retouched sth there... but my father said it looked like that before.
ReplyDeleteI think if you do portraits on which people like to look there best, it is ok to use photoshop, its just like putting on a lot! of makeup. if you do artsy portraits, then you'd problably would want to leave as much "character", i.e. wrinkles and spots, as possbile.
here are some thoughts about photoshop:
http://virginiasolesmith.com/2012/01/the-tina-fey-photoshop-problem/
and here sth about cropping pictures and the effect it can have.
http://www.zeit.de/politik/ausland/2012-03/fotografie-journalismus-ruben-salvadori/komplettansicht
and the artists homepage:
http://www.rubensalvadori.com/#
cheers, andy
and btw, you need a website like that salvadori guy!!!
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