Does every photographer edit pics after the fact? Is this just common practice for all pics? Or done on a pic by pic basis? Is it rare for pics to just be natural as they were shot?
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Does every photographer edit pics after the fact? Is this just common practice for all pics? Or done on a pic by pic basis? Is it rare for pics to just be natural as they were shot?
For the most part... yes
El negrito de tejas
Fukk the govt I got my own Deficit
The DP i was working with (guy holding the cam in the picture) recently copped the A7 r2 and the shyt he was showing me from his vacation was
definitely cop that (and if you wanna shoot videos it's legit at 4k)
I've been fighting it but I wanna upgrade to the Sony rx1r mkII or wait for somebody else to come with a full frame mirrorless camera.
I'm tired of walking around with my D90
T-K-G
Veteran
even the OG's made adjustments in the darkroom so i'd say yes
Instagram stepped up their editing software too.
Majestyx
Duck Season
yes. even if its just tweakin white balance or something. OG photogs used o sit around in the dark room and fukk around with how long they'd leave shyt in developer and dodging and burning.
lightroom.
i might cop that a7 too. trying to see what the fuji x2 and x200 gonna be lookin like. i fukks with the x100 been shootin with it more than my nikon
Majestyx
Duck Season
lightroom. i've been contemplatin using camera one. I've read that caemra one handles sony and fuji raws better than adobe. i do sometimes get some banding in black areas with lightroom with my fuji raws
If you shoot in Raw you will need to edit it, if you shoot JPEG the camera will edit it for you thats why jpegs look better out of the camera, and raw files look soft and sometimes ugly but they give you more control when it is time to edit.
But you can have lightroom apply preset settings when you import the photos so you wont need to edit but you will have the option.
Some of these examples are a bit on the extreme side when it comes to post processing, but check out these two feeds for before and after comparisons...
Danny Mota (@theraws) • Instagram photos and videos
Danny Mota | Made In Chicago (@dannymota) • Instagram photos and videos
His stuff goes into the digital art side cause he's removing and mirroring some stuff, but in general there's a ton of options you have at your disposal with post processing.
Dushane Hill
Superstar
I got lots more on my tumblr, check me out.
Photoshop CS6
So philosophically, for some photographers, it's more about making the shot they took look as good as possible instead of taking the perfect shot? I've been learning bit by bit the past few years. Framing the shot right, working with how light is working within the shot, playing with focus/shutter speeds/etc, and now I'm looking at how the final product gets to where it's at. Up until now I thought editing was some subtle touch up type shyt. I didn't know cats were adding clouds and shyt.
In most cases it is a subtle touch up, I was just giving an example of what some can come up with. That was kind of the extreme to your question. Not everybody is editing to that degree.