Originally posted by The Akumalian I agree totally with mwm and jmrsp on the photoshopping and editing, etc. Any altering should be limited to cropping. Anything else is NOT PHOTOGRAPHY in the pure sense, as far as I am concerned. I am of the old film, 35 mm slides, school where the shot was set up in the camera and locale at the time of pressing the button.
That's good in theory, but many pictures right off the camera seem to be slightly under-saturated and images on the computer don't match what I saw with my eyes. So I do some mild changes in contrast, saturation, color balance. The line between how you recall the scene and intentional dramatization is fuzzy, and depends on the editor, and viewer. Case in point - I thought #1 was more heavily edited than most.
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Originally posted by swanlefitte Wow! I just scrolled through and had a running commentary with myself. Each brings a unique experience. I think I will scroll through a few more times before I vote and see which one has more "wowing" factor over time. I don't know how else to decide at this time.
I agree. I was scrolling down and said to myself, this is the winner. Then I'd scroll a little more and find the next winner. Then scroll a little more.
I'm going to have to come back to this.