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[Kan Win]

I wish we could have another competition for amateurs, all your pictures looks like they have been taken by professionals , do you all use Photoshop for color adjustments ?

I think that if you post on here & you've retouched with Photoshop or some similar program you should say so in the post, this would be very helpful to everyone, I myself don't use touch up programs, as for me, the satisfaction is in getting the pic right in the first place, & touching up is an art form in itself...

Need to remember that many use RAW format and there is no option but to post process it (develop it). What the eye sees and what the camera sees is not always the same. Post processing to bring the image back to what you remember seeing is fair. Anyone shooting in .jpg are post processing but it is done in camera automatically.

Your eyes will never see the waves smooth polished or water as silk of waterfalls or the startrails or headlights in movement in the night but the camera can.! ". Your eyes can not see the micro world of insects in its many details and the camera can.Sometimes the results are not satisfactory

, and then you use the postprocess. Incidentally if Photoshop exists in so many years and millions of

people use it there is a good reason! The photo retouching and pp has been done since the photography was born into the darkroom with the aid of chemicals and acids and then more easily and safely with the task and the skill of digitale software

. A Striking Example ''.Raising the Flag on Iwo Jima''. of photographer Joe Rosenthal winner Pulitzer Prize1945 was a strongly retouched photo.

.Only Two years before he died(2006) Rosenthal admitted that the photo had been remodeled, with the elimination of disturbing objects, other soldiers around, the American flag had also been made bigger, the result was

a photo so strong and full of meaning and emotions. In those years becomes a cult photo, as well as sculpture ,logo and stamp.With this i want say,if you want use Photoshop or any other software if you think that this helps to develop your creativity do it! but with moderation and without exceedingI photo retouching is not to transform reality, but helps to put on focus the soul of reality and this is what Joe Rosenthal did it! Sorry for my english,Best regards

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[Kan Win]

I'm not trying to criticise post editing, I'm just saying that it would be nice to know when it was being used, & not knowing that much about the intricacies of digital photography I use JPEG rather than RAW purely so that I can view & share the pic without having to fiddle about with it, which as I have said before, is an art form in itself...

So what your saying is we should all shoot JPEG rather than "fiddle about with it" seriously dude?

I don't think for one minute that zyphodb is suggesting that we should all shoot Jpeg,zyphodb stated that he preferred to use Jpeg instead of

Raw,and actually complimented the people that do shoot RAW.

Folks,I kindly remind you that this is still a photo competition,so lets focus on that please.

Cheers

Come and join us all in the main photo forum balo. (link)

Have a look through the different threads to see where your photos fit in best.

We would love to see them!

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