What do you think abt touching up the photos/ photoshopping ??
I am really not a big fan of it, my understanding is that taking good pictures means using the skills to actually capture things from your own perspective while photoshopping means using the skills to change how a picture looks like. It works for me if it’s for resizing, copy writing, cropping but other then these I don’t do any other task. That’s a digital/graphic designer’s work not mine.
ur say???
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well i can only call my self a true photographer if i built my own camera. getting hi-fi camera and lenses and equipment...then u should also ask why i am getting larger than life colors? why am i using tripod when i have my own hands and legs?
ps. i am graphic artist..photography is just a part of it for me.
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I use one little utility to resize images.
Other then that NO software.
But Looking at the books I could tell software can help, specially in portraits
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With digital images you can make changes to the images that you wish or something you like. For example taking the sun pics at dawn time and changing the colors of the clouds to little extra red to give more beauty to the picture.
In portraits people want their faces to be free of artifacts and any kind of marks, it doesn't mean that they want to hide something, it is just personal satisfaction.
In the commercial world, most of the product and natural scenic pictures go through the editing process.
With digital cameras, when you shoot in raw, you not only taking the picture but you also gathering lots of the image related data. Once you download pics in your computer you can then modify and change the ratios of different colors if you wish.
In JPG images when you change one color for example, when you reduce black it will be reduces from all the basic colors compare to the raw. JPG files have less flexibility to change the colors than in raw.
I will try to post some before and after editing pics
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I agree with mubeen even though raw images when taken with nice camera equipment do turn out very nice it is the touch ups that get the attention to the pic. Although there are two schools of thought and some say photoshopping should not be done and pictures should be left the way they are taken and the other say that photoshopping enhances the quality and looks of the photograph.
I am not against photshopping or editing pix. My point is that doing all that shows that u are good @ digitial arts not exactly photography. Even in photography competitions they judge the pix on the basis of the techniques used in taking the pictures and the degree of difficulty not on how the pic was enhanced using tools.
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I have been doing graphic design and commercial printing for nearly 9 years now and I keep those skills separated from photography.
Photography - right out of the camera - this is what it is all about.
Now with RAW and editing, you can make up for your mistakes, but don't go overboard.
I use lightroom and photoshop to retouch skin blemishes or to remove random uncles and aunties from backgrounds when they should not be in the frame, but nothing drastic.
If you want to build your photography skills, use FILM. Develop your style while learning how to get the results you want. Then and only then will you have value for your shots (because you are PAYING for them!).
I see too many photographers shooting 2000 photos at a wedding and only having 150 good photos that are heavily modified in photoshop. If you start with Film, you will take much less shots and have a higher "keeper" ratio.
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^ post our work plz.
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Will do friend, just a few more posts! I need 25 to post urls and upload photos.
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There is just 2 more left! :)
Will do friend, just a few more posts! I need 25 to post urls and upload photos.
The 25 post limit is for external URL's, you should still be able to post pictures using the upload tool on the right hand side (in the quickie section).