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09/06/2005 01:33:16 AM · #1 |
Hi,
I don't know if this question has been asked before. I have been looking at various photographs this site and others, some are brilliant and have had a lot of work put into them.
I have just recently come into the world of Digital Photography (D70 user),I have a personal feeling about editing and touching up pictures, I have taken a lot of pix that would of been a lot better with some editing but I am in the thnking- I will take a better shot next time now I know what I could of done better.
Do you think post editing makes it easier for you to carry on taking photographs but not realy learning how to take the shot? |
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09/06/2005 01:41:35 AM · #2 |
| It's an essential part of the process. Sure, it's important to get the shot right, but that's only the first step to getting the picture you want. |
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09/06/2005 01:41:47 AM · #3 |
At the end of the day, there's only so much photoshop can do. if it's a crap photo to begin with, nothing you can do on PS will change that. PS can make a great photo brilliant though. That's all it can do, and hell, digital cameras are aiming now to create photo's that look better edited. Many of the newer Canon models create softer focus photo's that NEED editing before looking good.
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09/06/2005 01:42:25 AM · #4 |
they will tell you long stories about how film photography had always used the darkroom to enhance photos. yawn...
anyway, its true that some photographs look crap without post-processing or digital editing on a computer. |
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09/06/2005 02:35:48 AM · #5 |
Originally posted by Dacc:
Hi,
I don't know if this question has been asked before. I have been looking at various photographs this site and others, some are brilliant and have had a lot of work put into them.
I have just recently come into the world of Digital Photography (D70 user),I have a personal feeling about editing and touching up pictures, I have taken a lot of pix that would of been a lot better with some editing but I am in the thnking- I will take a better shot next time now I know what I could of done better.
Do you think post editing makes it easier for you to carry on taking photographs but not realy learning how to take the shot? |
Yes! For me (very new to digital and photography) I have no clue how to use any of the camera settings, I just wing it and post edit to get a half way decit shot.
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09/06/2005 05:31:27 AM · #6 |
Originally posted by Dacc:
... Do you think post editing makes it easier for you to carry on taking photographs but not realy learning how to take the shot? |
It most certainly does. The better you know how to use your camera, the better images you will be able to capture. Learning about all the various settings and adjustments on your camera is the basic foundation to great photos. And there is a lot there to learn, it doesn't come overnight. Using editing software to touch up your shots is important too, but secondary to the original capture. I think you'll be a better photographer in the long run if you concentrate on knowing your camera well first, and then doing however much editing fits with your style of shooting, be it mere "touch up" or full scale manipulation. You can fall into a trap of using software as a crutch for weak images if you don't try to get the best possible image to start with. But even the best images can usually, but not always, be improved, "fine-tuned" so to speak, with some editing.
And a belated Welcome to dpc and Good Luck with your challenge entries.
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09/06/2005 05:43:23 AM · #7 |
Actually, I think post-editing has made me pay more attention to taking the photo "right" the first time. I spend a lot of time analyzing each photo to see what I want to do with it. As I discover each new detail that I would change if I could, I learn more about how I really want my photos to look. It makes me MORE inclined to want to learn how to do that in-camera.
If I find myself repeating the same editing on most of my photos, such as trying to blur out a distracting background....I really begin to notice the things I need to work on the most in-camera (in that case, determining the proper dof for the shot.)
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09/06/2005 06:23:25 AM · #8 |
Originally posted by jpochard:
Actually, I think post-editing has made me pay more attention to taking the photo "right" the first time. I spend a lot of time analyzing each photo to see what I want to do with it. As I discover each new detail that I would change if I could, I learn more about how I really want my photos to look. It makes me MORE inclined to want to learn how to do that in-camera.
If I find myself repeating the same editing on most of my photos, such as trying to blur out a distracting background....I really begin to notice the things I need to work on the most in-camera (in that case, determining the proper dof for the shot.) |
That's my case as well. Blurry background was a great example, after doing it a couple times in PS you'll get sick of the 'edited look' of it and want to do it the real way. |
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09/06/2005 07:03:21 AM · #9 |
Originally posted by jansku:
Originally posted by jpochard:
Actually, I think post-editing has made me pay more attention to taking the photo "right" the first time. I spend a lot of time analyzing each photo to see what I want to do with it. As I discover each new detail that I would change if I could, I learn more about how I really want my photos to look. It makes me MORE inclined to want to learn how to do that in-camera.
If I find myself repeating the same editing on most of my photos, such as trying to blur out a distracting background....I really begin to notice the things I need to work on the most in-camera (in that case, determining the proper dof for the shot.) |
That's my case as well. Blurry background was a great example, after doing it a couple times in PS you'll get sick of the 'edited look' of it and want to do it the real way. |
That's definately one thing you can improve in-camera by learning what settings do what. Getting the exposure as close as you can in camera is another time saver when it comes to post processing though there are some situations where you have to make a compromise in-camera and adjust in post processing. One of these situations is where the dynamic range of the scene is greater than what the camera can capture (very bright and very dark areas).
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09/06/2005 07:08:57 AM · #10 |
The icing on the cake.
The cap on the lens.
The transparency on the panty.
Photography is not just about taking a picture and storing it into a file, that'll be copying life and nature. This is art. The artists has to right to decide what would be qualified. The great thing about art is that it's up to everyone's interpretation.
This was mine.
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