Quote: Your vision, as expressed through your skill with a GR and your skill with PP, is dramatic and eye catching. They have a clarity about them, a heightened realism, like a vivid dream. I imagine that many, many people enjoy them.
No I'm shooting with a K-3. The question was not camera specific to my mind. ( You do know that all forum posts come up when you go to the "The Latest" menu and select new posts.) I'm not sure that my images contained heightened realism though, in that most of my images were much more dramatic when I saw them, especially the sunsets and reflections. I guess maybe I just see things more vividly than you do. My theory has always been, find something spectacular, and then try and portray it so people have a sense of it. But, usually my portrayals are somewhat less spectacular than what was there. That's just not possible with a camera. Something I've been trying to explain. Nothing you can capture with a camera even approaches what you see in nature.
My only answer to people who claim I'm augmenting things is... come stand beside me while I'm working. See what I see. Maybe here the issue is just you don't go where I go and see what I see. What your commentary says to me is that you take pictures of the mundane and do a realistic capture of that. Which is kind of like the opposite of what I do. A different approach. Finding the beauty in the ordinary. I'm just a thrill seeker at heart. If I can't pass on the thrill I felt looking at the scene I saw, (because I'm seeing something that is both in a beautiful place, and a scene of unusual beauty based on available light and time of day, even in that place) ,I'm not a happy man.
At least , that's the way I'd phrase it.
But just as a helpful hint, describing yourself as honest, implies that others are somehow dishonest.
And describing my work as taken in a vivid dream, well reality is like that sometimes. You can't pick and choose different parts of reality and claim one is more "real" than the others. They are both equally "real". I can go out on a two week trip and take 90% of my photographs in a 45 minute span, because I insist on having that magic moment. And that magic moment is just as much a part of reality as the every day stuff. It's just not as common.