Quote: If you can't produce something straight out of the camera without using a photo editing program, your conception of true art and what photography is all about is flawed. I will shoot you one question! Where would you have been 15 years ago without your Photoshop.
I'd have been in my wet darkroom with an enlarger timing development, varying temperature, trying different developers and papers, pushin', pullin', dodgin', burnin' prints and doin'
post processing in a smelly, messy way . . . and cussing the lack of features we have today to deal with non-destructive adjustments if I'd only known about them then.
Wet PP was much more time consuming, expensive and inflexible than the tools we have today -- whether used for 'art' or for recording forensic reality.
Straight out of camera was never the final product except for slides and those weren't ALL THAT GREAT in most cases.
At the very least, you need to consider an appropriate compositional crop suitable for the subject rather than the given format!!
Post processing is an integral part/art of photography. To deny that is to tell Ansel he was wastin' his time in the darkroom all those years.
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(An' I can now crawl into bed at midnight after a long 'day' in the "compute darkroom" without being told I stink -- and to go take a shower! Digital PP has its procreational advantages, too!
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