Unedited photos
I don't think we should separate them or forbid to use one.
I tend not to 'tweak' images, I'm just too lazy.
But as Stefan says, the post processing is as much part of photography as taking the shot.
On the bright side, most images taken with Pentax cameras need little or no tweaking, unlike a certain other make, (cough, canon, cough!)who's owners seem unable to publish straight from the body!
I don't enter the comps, if you look at my gallery you can see why!
K110+DA40, K200+DA35, K3 and a bag of lenses, bodies and other bits.
Mustn't forget the Zenits, or folders, or...
PPG entries.
Personally I see no problem if people want to alter their images, after all it's the individual to do as much or little as they think the image needs.
I'm just lazy, preferring not to do too much.
K110+DA40, K200+DA35, K3 and a bag of lenses, bodies and other bits.
Mustn't forget the Zenits, or folders, or...
PPG entries.
At some point you leave the definition of photography.
I believe there should be an entire seperate catorgory for out of the camara images.
The seprate catagory could then limit the kinds of post processing that are allowable. Spotting, Cropping ect.
Both of these catogories are art forms and there are people that excell in these areas. I do not feel that they should have to compete against each other.
Some people, like my self, do not have the desire to post process. That does not mean they are not good photographers. If an acceptable image can not be captured digitally without post processing we need to rethink and redefine photography. Acceptable images were produced straight out of the camera with film for 150 years.
These are just my thoughts on the subject, I'll quit rambeling now.
Steven
If an acceptable image can not be captured digitally without post processing we need to rethink and redefine photography. Acceptable images were produced straight out of the camera with film for 150 years.
Well I'm one of those.
That light sensitive surface you talk about has limitations so I try to expose it so that it capture most of the tonal range as it can and well photos are often to bright since you expose to the right so does that mean I'm not a good photographer?
Even those that took a photo 150 years ago needed to develop that light sensitive surface, I'm sure they also used all kind of tricks
Some people, like my self, do not have the desire to post process. That does not mean they are not good photographers. If an acceptable image can not be captured digitally without post processing we need to rethink and redefine photography. Acceptable images were produced straight out of the camera with film for 150 years.
So they produced a print straight from the camera even though it would a negative? I never did that as I never had a polaroid. The closest you got to what you describe was shooting slides and even then some people would adjust the processing to suit the conditions.
Mike
You can see some of my shots at my Flickr account.
Dodging and burning are steps to take care of mistakes God made in establishing tonal relationships.
Ansel Adams
If post processing is good enough for Ansel Adams, I guess it's good enough for anyone.
As for the good old days...I seemed to spend ages in Dad's cold and smelly old darkroom dodging and burning, snatching prints from the devloper... And I was fed up with colour prints coming back from the processors with someone else's ideas of what the original scene should have looked like.
But it's an interesting idea. (Blimey, I'd have to get my horizons horizontal and my door frames vertical in the camera! And as for deliberately underexposing foregrounds to preserve cloud highlight detail...)
Best wishes,
Andrew
Andrew
"These places mean something and it's the job of a photographer to figure-out what the hell it is."
Robert Adams
"The camera doesn't make a bit of difference. All of them can record what you are seeing. But, you have to SEE."
Ernst Hass
My website: http://www.ephotozine.com/user/bwlchmawr-199050 http://s927.photobucket.com/home/ADC3440/index
https://www.flickr.com/photos/78898196@N05
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I like to take photos, and never spend ages tweaking them, although I must admit I do sometimes a little bit, but not drastically.
Just thought a competition without any photo editing allowed might be challenging