by Pete Reek » Tue Jan 12, 2010 11:51 pm
Numberplease, don't think bad thoughts about the photos you've taken. You took them because you felt the need to. They are a record of what you saw at that moment in time when you pressed the button.If no one was sitting on your shoulder snapping away at the same things you were, then they are unique and deserve to be seen, so please keep posting them.
There will always be debate about Photoshop and other forms of enhancement. There are some who do a great job of it, and I wish I was as skilful at it as they are. However, the really good photos are not good only because they have been enhanced. They are good because of the content. They are good because the photographer had the vision to capture an image which we mere mortals didn't or couldn't see. The skill is presenting only the part that lends something to the picture.
Take KTAL's two photo's of the goats at the Gauldrons. The distant photo is brilliant, and captures the goats on the rocks plus a fair bit of the surrounding area. The cropped photo showing them up close with the cascading wave in front of them while they balance on the rocks isn't a brilliant photo! Oh no! It is instead, pure genius, plain and simple! A picture I would love to have taken.
Like Crowth, I can enhance a bit here and there, and don't mind admitting to that. I will continue to take and hopefully show my less than perfect images, simply because I like to do it.
Regards
Pete Reek
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