Art

Continuing on from yesterday’s post, today I have been thinking about post processing and what it means to me. I know that some people spend a great deal of time touching up and modifying their images and they end up with some really spectacular stuff – but are they still photographs? How much modification does it take before an image becomes more computer generated than the original photograph?

I am of the school of thought that a photo is a photo is a photo. I like to shoot an image that only needs the usual cropping and sharpening (if any) to make it work. I don’t want to have to modify it to fit into some fantasy realm or to have it so air brushed that you can’t tell what is real and what is not!



Yes what they do is art, and a very skilled art at that, but so is photography. Why let the ability to digitally alter images dilute the quality of the art of actually taking a good photo. I am not a graphic artist and never will be. I am a photographer and that’s the way it is going to stay.