vintagesnaps
Been spending a lot of time on here!
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Good advice Derrel, don't pay attention to idiots on YouTube! lol I'd say listen to Scott (imagemaker) instead. Or go read his dad's book (Ted Grant), really, it's worth it.
That's true Lew, you can't just take the film or the media card out of the camera and look at it. Well, I guess you can if you want to stare at a square piece of plastic or a strip of plastic with emulsion slapped on one side of it! lol But you won't get your photos that way.
You're a good editor Lew, and I've sometimes had a photo I spent more time adjusting or processing than usual. I think a good photographer should be able to frame a shot well, get a proper exposure, and then as desired or needed edit the image. But if someone has to correct exposure or crop every picture etc. I think that would indicate a need to develop skills with the camera. Seems like editing or post processing should be to enhance the photo not just to fix it most of the time.
I guess I compare it to writing - sometimes I may rewrite a paragraph more than once because I just can't get it the way I want it, it just didn't flow well when I wrote it. But if I have to do that with every paragraph I'll never get done and better go learn how to write better.
I could give a couple of examples (if anyone really wants to know) but basically I usually have a reason for what I'm doing as far as editing goes (which sometimes might be to fix what I screwed up but I don't expect that from myself often or there will be a certain amount of mumbling that may not be for public message boards! lol).
That's true Lew, you can't just take the film or the media card out of the camera and look at it. Well, I guess you can if you want to stare at a square piece of plastic or a strip of plastic with emulsion slapped on one side of it! lol But you won't get your photos that way.
You're a good editor Lew, and I've sometimes had a photo I spent more time adjusting or processing than usual. I think a good photographer should be able to frame a shot well, get a proper exposure, and then as desired or needed edit the image. But if someone has to correct exposure or crop every picture etc. I think that would indicate a need to develop skills with the camera. Seems like editing or post processing should be to enhance the photo not just to fix it most of the time.
I guess I compare it to writing - sometimes I may rewrite a paragraph more than once because I just can't get it the way I want it, it just didn't flow well when I wrote it. But if I have to do that with every paragraph I'll never get done and better go learn how to write better.
I could give a couple of examples (if anyone really wants to know) but basically I usually have a reason for what I'm doing as far as editing goes (which sometimes might be to fix what I screwed up but I don't expect that from myself often or there will be a certain amount of mumbling that may not be for public message boards! lol).