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Forum: Photographic Technique 05-17-2019, 02:23 PM  
How much is enough - post processing
Posted By savoche
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Indeed. When I go through images I processed several years ago I often wonder what on earth I was thinking... So when processing now I try to take a break and then go back to have another look. Quite often I'll discover that I pulled some sliders too far
Forum: Photographic Technique 05-12-2019, 02:46 AM  
How much is enough - post processing
Posted By savoche
Replies: 30
Views: 2,653
Good, because that's what you'll get ;)

First of all, I don't really think there is any such thing as photography representing things "the way I saw it". For starters it's a three dimensional scene projected onto a two dimensional medium - through a lens that will warp perspective one way or another. But that's another debate altogether.

I'm rather inconsistent in my processing. Sometimes I stick to adjusting the basics only (fix whitebalance, pull down the highlights, raise the shadows, pull in the the white and black points, often reduce saturation somewhat, sometimes crop a bit) - in other words staying fairly close to "what I saw". Other times I can go through a much more complex processing e.g. adjusting exposure and colour locally to focus attention, remove distractions etc. I tend to spend more time processing images in b&w than in colour, though. I think we tend to accept more outrageous processing as "real" when colours are removed and thus b&w leaves more room for artistic interpretation while still pleasing the crowd. And we all want to please the crowd, don't we. (Yes, yes, I shoot for myself and all that, but if I didn't care about what others think, why would I post my images?)
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