mrca
No longer a newbie, moving up!
- Joined
- Mar 13, 2018
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- Can others edit my Photos
- Photos NOT OK to edit
flying, please cite where PPA does that. Do you have any idea how ridiculous that sounds? I haven't judged for them in over 10 years, but don't remember ever hearing that. I was in charge of their mentor program before I relocated and I certainly didn't teach that. What is wrong with batch processing? I use a color checker passport and batch process each group of images under the same lighting condition. It enables me to get a consistent starting point on white balance and get the colors dead on. That kind of precision doesn't happen in camera. Nor in camera do I have the precision to add a specific amount of warming to images from that baseline. Someone who doesn't have a clue would never appreciate the consistent color across a range of images. I wish all the novices who either don't know photoshop or don't use it, would take a class before condemning it. They call it cheating because edited images will almost always look better than straight out of camera and they hate it that they cant produce such quality. And if they shoot jpeg, they have already let the camera computer EDIT the image. If the shoot raw and don't edit, their images are flat, have poor contrast, color and sharpness. Usually these people are collectors not photographers so would never call someone using a 12 grand 400 mm 2.8 to photo pro football cheating when they can't match it with their kit lens. Remember the quote, you don't know what you don't know. Why do these people think they are qualified to preach about what is acceptable and not. Reminds me of the Inherit the Wind movie quote, God speaks to Brady and brady tells the world. I wish the photo gods would speak to me too. Why don't the anti PS folks, show us your IMAGES that document how unedited images can consistently be high quality. And no jpeg camera edited captures, only raw captures.