RainNotebook
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This is not to get a heated discussion going but just to get your personal opinion. Of course I understand that photoshop (and other similar programs) is just like a working with your pictures in a darkroom.
But is there a way to go too far? What I mean by that is. Lets say I took a picture of a gorgeous field of overgrown green grass. And at a different time and place I took a picture of a old falling apart house. Then I blend these two together and make one photo.
Now here is the question. Is that right? Does that still make you a photographer? When you use more of your photoshop skills then your photography skills, is it still a photograph or a computer generated image? Is it "ethical" to present it as one of your photos on your website? And if so how would you present it? Or maybe I'm way off... maybe this is used all the time and very typical?
To me it just seems wrong... but I want to do it. lol (I know I contradict myself a lot) and I just wanted to know in the photography world is it generally accepted or frowned upon?
But is there a way to go too far? What I mean by that is. Lets say I took a picture of a gorgeous field of overgrown green grass. And at a different time and place I took a picture of a old falling apart house. Then I blend these two together and make one photo.
Now here is the question. Is that right? Does that still make you a photographer? When you use more of your photoshop skills then your photography skills, is it still a photograph or a computer generated image? Is it "ethical" to present it as one of your photos on your website? And if so how would you present it? Or maybe I'm way off... maybe this is used all the time and very typical?
To me it just seems wrong... but I want to do it. lol (I know I contradict myself a lot) and I just wanted to know in the photography world is it generally accepted or frowned upon?