Photo editing

[Extirpated Wildlife]

What are the issues people have with doing simple photo editing with software? This isn't anymore different than a photographer who manually develops his prints to get the most out of a print.

Now if your editing to the point that you take stuff out, though i don't have a problem with that, this is going beyond the scope of what I would call a natural photo.

 

[Ittai2]

A lot depends on the purpose of the modifications to the photo. If artistic in nature, there is a lot of liberty that can be taken, as long as it is acknowledged in the caption. Journalistic photos have a much tighter guideline when it comes to altering. The darkroom example is a good guide. Exposure, contrast and cropping to optimize the photo are about the only acceptable changes allowed.

 

[Extirpated Wildlife]

Agreed. PJs have a responsibility to present the most accurate look to the scene as possible.

 

[Mr Hako]

just look at what has happened in Britain recently, with the faked photos of abused iraqi prisoners.

 

[datan]

Exposure, contrast and cropping to optimize the photo are about the only acceptable changes allowed.

not even burning and dodging?

 

[Extirpated Wildlife]

burning and dodging are probably not allowed in PJs. But that is an acceptable form of modifying photographs in most other forms of photography. How do you think some of the greats do theirs?

 

[Mr Hako]

of course you can burn and dodge in P.J. Cameras and film cannot capture the same range of contrasts and tones that we see with our eyes, so sometimes it is inevitable to pick out details by using such methods.

 

[JohnR7]

I do whatever I can do, to come up with the best photos I can get. What I like to do best is to blend photos together. I learned a lot about how to modify one photos, when I was cutting it out to insert it into another photo.

 

[Chad Merrell]

It all depends on what you are doing with them and who governs what you can do. I am my own boss so to say in my photo side job, I do everything under the sun to make the image top quality. I prefer to have it clean from the camera but there are times when my subjects want scars removed and skin smoothed out. I do whatever they want and also what other photo companies here don't do to offer something new in this area. I currently am working on actually taking pictures and redrawing them in a paint format to get the pictures painted. Not alot of people down here in GA offer that service so I am trying it out.