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The colors of fallRelated content
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Autumn is amazing
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thanks very much!
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This is stunning. I love the colours and depth of field.
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thank you very much
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Hey, I love this photo, but can I edit it to show you how I would have made up for the harsh light?
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that sounds great, i'd love to see what you can do with it
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[link] - Just a simple edit in Lightroom 2. 
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that's very nice
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Do you do any post-processing with your photography?
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on most of the pictures i have up i've done at least some editing. i usually try to keep them fairly close to the original though
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Why do you try and keep them close to the original?
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well i like them to look good, but i still want the pieces to keep at least some of what was there when i took the picture
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That's the problem, though. You're changing the picture to make up for the scene. There are huge differences between how the camera sees and renders a scene and how our eyes do. Whatever you do in post-processing is usually to make up for the differences in how your camera and you, yourself, saw it.
For instance, the dynamic range in our eyes are much greater than they are in the camera. Ever notice how you can see all the details of objects in the shadow cast by the house when the sun is at an angle, but you can also see the details in and objects outside of the shadow in the light? The camera can't do that. The camera can either only see what's in the light or only see what's in the dark, because its sensor's range isn't as large as our eyes'. So we make up for that through either a graduated filter, adjusting contrast, editing levels, etc. If you expose for the dark area, everything in the dark area will come out normal looking, but everything in the light area will disappear in whiteness. Same thing happens if you expose for the white area, but your objects in the dark area will turn to black.
Another example is the movement of waves. Your eyes constantly refreshing to see new objects, which creates the sensation of movement. We never see a wave at stand still, right? But the camera actually can make water freeze. This isn't natural. It'd never do that in real life. If you're trying to create a natural image that looks just like the scene, you're going to have to put a filter on to slow down the shutterspeed. This way the waves will be slightly blurred to create a more real looking image.
Your camera, unless you shoot in raw, will always edit the image from what it actually captures anyway. So if you shoot JPEG files, you're not getting the original image.
Something you have to remember when you're trying to shoot something so the viewer felt like they were there; they aren't getting the full experience, so it won't be as dramatic unless you electrify the photograph. They're missing out on the flow of the air, the scent, the third-dimensional image, the sounds, and maybe even the taste. You have to make up for that in the image.
I say it's okay to edit photography if you're trying to recreate the scene and the power of it.
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whoaaa that was a wall of text, haha. you made some really good points there, and i can't agree more. well now i won't feel so bad about editing the shots i take
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