Hell, I sometimes do both.
Shel Belinkoff wrote:
So, let's say you've decided to photograph a landscape. You drive out to
the area you want to photograph, set up the camera and tripos, take your
time to carefully frame the scene, but at no time is the light just right.
The sky is dismal, the shadows minimal and contrast is low. Do you take
the pic anyway and then Photoshop (there's that verb again) in a nice blue
sky with fluffy white clouds and boost the contrast and saturation to
better depict what you were hoping to photograph in the first place - a
nice, bright, cheerful landscape? It's done quite often to one degree or
another. Or do you take what you get, and work with the ominous sky and
darker, colors, work with what nature provided, adapt to the scene, and
make a photo that's different from what you intended or hoped for?
Shel
[Original Message]
From: Powell Hargrave
I manipulate my images. Some times to better tell the truth. Sometimes
to
better show what I want. Very seldom but occasionally to deceive.
Powell
--
A man's only as old as the woman he feels.
--Groucho Marx
