Posted: Wed May 24, 2006 1:22 pm Post subject: To edit or Not to Edit.
This is the question? or more so the question is when does editing a photo go past enhancing and into totaly altering the way a photo looks?
I know that everyone has done it at one time or another if you own computers and imaging software!! A little color added or removed here, we can add a plant or window there, take a plant or window out of this because its in the way. But really when does it go to far?
When does it go from taking a picture to digital remastering and editing into something else?
I personally have done it to "play" with a photo for the fun or to practice my skills. I have done it on graphic designs for a client. I have also done it in portrait photography to enhance a background and this is normal practice and acceptable in those fields.
My question here though is have we gone to far when you take a photo of this and you take a photo of that and you completely cut them appart and then add them together as a totally new picture and then claim it as you taking that actual photo? Sure you took them both but when you manipulate them into something totaly diffrent what does it become?
It, In my opinion takes away from the true art of photography and the excitment of the hunt for that one great shot!
What is the point of going out for the day and snapping all of those great photos if you plan to just whack em and slap them into somthing that you never really saw? but then say ohhh yeah I took that...PLEASE
I say that if you feel the need to alter your shots that much then throw them away and start again because the altered one is false information...
Exampe:
I can take a shot of the lighthouse and add a set of clouds and the water breaking onto the sand from a picture I took months ago in a totaly diffrent state or heck even a set of waves from the internet royalty free site, and slap it on the picture of the lighthouse and then pass it off as yup thats my photo...
But is it REALLY? ....
Ok, so I am asking for an opinion I guess? I want everyones view on this.
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I think there's a limit too. Sometimes doing all the different alterings takes away the natural beauty of the picture...sometimes tho it makes a picture better. I guess it just depends. Now to see a completely changed photo, I would want to see the originals also with a note on what had been done to the picture to make it look that way.
It's still fun to play with ideas.
i guess for me it is matter of opinion and taste....
personally i do not like over edited pictures, i think that the picture should speak for itself without to much done to it. although while surfing the web on this same topic i have discovered that it is split 50/50. some say a great editor makes a great photographer, or a great photographer can make a great editor. so, i guess it boils down to personal taste. i for one think there is a limit, if it is just a bad picture, then no editing in the world will fix it. throw the picture out and retry. if it is being edited to enhance, then for me, that is the key. enhance the natural beauty of the picture you have captured. be proud of the fact that you caught it and move on! so many pictures to take, and yet so little time! _________________ "i haven't failed, i found ways that didn't work"
Personally, I feel that if you have to create a picture from cutting and pasting other pictures (your own or otherwise) this is a seperate art form than actual photography. I agree that enhancing a photo is reasonable; but I think there is such a thing as OVER-enhancing. For instance, we all agreed that the pictures I took and tried to merge of the sunset and waves was just plain cheesy and did not work: but even if I had the ability to make it work, I would not try to say that I took that picture! All I feel I could claim is that I created the picture...does that make sense?
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