Digital photography has opened the doors to creativity of the photographer in a totally different way since the days of film. For people like me who has done a run with the analog camera is the only way to intervene on the shoot or was being acquired through filters to be placed in front of the lens or the use of "intelligence" of light or, for those developed by only the photos, working in the darkroom for toning and color details. Today all this is done safely and comfortably through two taps of the computer mouse and can be good or bad, depending on how you use this tool.
What is the risk you run?
know that the pc we can recover the errors in exposure assessment, the wrong white balance and that we can crop, edit, delete and so on could lead us to become photographers and graphics.
I act in a hybrid for my tax changes they make to their photos are the same that I could make with the film and not the few, the cropping of the photo, the adjustment of color, wearing shooting black and white or apply color filters that act on saturation are all techniques that were used with the film. What I should refuse to do is delete parts Photo by tools like the Clone Stamp or distort the reality because I see the photo has to tell what I see and to limit emphasize a particular message I want them to be transmitted.
Often however I see that people abuse cripple the reality of computers and offering images that are not "true."
An example: if I am a photographer in the mountains and valley and the valley runs a power line with a lot of pylons someone might be tempted to delete the photo to make it smooth but I think it would be a worst ugliness reality ruined man with its invasive interventions. What I want is that if one day someone will go in the same valley will see what I photographed, not something very different.
For portraits then you could open a discussion with the digital age, people no longer want to see yourself in the picture but what would be, no wrinkles, no bags under his eyes, maybe a few pounds less and away double chins.
But they are at or dummies?
The pimple, a small imperfection, the hair out of place, these are the details that make us unique and we characterize why remove them? Just to look like models of newspapers that are heavily modified by photographers to pc?
All this talk because I do believe that we should follow ethics when photographing, and I believe that ethics, bare-bones for not asking too many limitations, it should at least push the photographer not to change the reality as if he were a god.
All these are personal considerations, of course, are just a single point of view and I plan to show how the photographer can change reality with practical examples as I get a bit 'of time.
The thing to keep in mind is that if you start to work more on your computer during the shooting, then something is not working, switch off everything and start from scratch when it leans too much to handle after you click lose all the stock of knowledge that underlie the photograph itself.
The camera for example, we have immediately the vision of what we want and resume do not think so then we can crop the image at will otherwise never train our eye. This thing may seem silly, but with time you will find that if you be careful when taking Then as you walk you will see things in perspective as if they already saw through the viewfinder! You do not need to be a monster to do that, will be used to ensure that your eye sees a scene already knowing how it will be played through your goal, then you will get fired this mental mechanism that will get you special pictures "natural" and you will find details roads traveled a thousand times that I had never before noticed.
Obviously this takes time and patience is a weapon that can not fail in a photographer because the machine is expected to make the beautiful picture is only an illusion to think that investing in the body or to have a super super optics is sufficient to capture the moment is totally wrong.
Always remember that the finger pressing the shutter is yours, the eye that chooses to frame it belongs to you and only you can decide the settings of your machine so if you can make a pretty picture do not be afraid to be proud of it because the credit is only yours!
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