Your opinion: To edit or not to edit and why?

[Advanced Photo]

Edit. Always edit. The algorythms in the camera are what a bunch of techs think the image should be altered in order to approximate what a photograph looks like. Over the years, the algorythm gets a little better and better, but it's still an algorythm and not a human eye. It only does what they think it should do based on the data compiled to date and on averages. We all know that there is no real average in the world we live in. Cameras capture light in a completely different way than an eye does and a photo, to be convincing needs to fool the eye into thinking it's an object and not a picture of an object. The only way to really do that effectively is to have a human eye in the loop somewhere making the decisions and not rely on averages.

Your edits are so much better than the cameras algorythms that you should always do your edits.
Good work here on the jack.

 

[AlanKlein84]

The picture would be more interesting if you rotated the pumpkin so its eyes faced the camera.

 

[Tim Tucker]

I'm not really sure how to respond without offending here.

To edit or not to edit, that is the question. Whether 'tis nobler in mind to suffer. The slings and arrows of outrageous forums...

No, I wouldn't have bothered, I'd of binned it.

But then perhaps I missed the enigmatic smile, (I noticed the ear was missing). The significance of the devil's diagonal may elude me, as does the power of All Hallows Eve. Perhaps there's hidden magic, and perhaps I'll get my comeuppance...

 

[Advanced Photo]

I'm not really sure how to respond without offending here.

To edit or not to edit, that is the question. Whether 'tis nobler in mind to suffer. The slings and arrows of outrageous forums...

No, I wouldn't have bothered, I'd of binned it.

But then perhaps I missed the enigmatic smile, (I noticed the ear was missing). The significance of the devil's diagonal may elude me, as does the power of All Hallows Eve. Perhaps there's hidden magic, and perhaps I'll get my comeuppance...

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You would have missed a good opportunity if you would have binned it.

 

[Frank F.]

The picture would be more interesting if you rotated the pumpkin so its eyes faced the camera.

It is on the neighbours balcony in 6 meters height. The shot was taken at 300mm. The pumpkin was a bit of foreground for me to show the beautiful light and foliage of the autumnal trees.

 

[Advanced Photo]

The picture would be more interesting if you rotated the pumpkin so its eyes faced the camera.

It is on the neighbours balcony in 6 meters height. The shot was taken at 300mm. The pumpkin was a bit of foreground for me to show the beautiful light and foliage of the autumnal trees.

No more excuses! now climb up there and mess around on their balcony, you might want to wear a flack vest though, just in case they don't like it.

 

[Peeb74 2]

Edited to take out distracting wire, blurred the background a bit more, dropped the 'whiteness' of the background in the right hand corner.

 

[OGsPhotography]

I think I like it, the simplicity, the awkwardness, the loneliness in that ine eye, now that I read the thread....But in second thought I too would have binned it to great waste.

Good job seeing something there!

It does have an odd sense of purpose that pumpkin looking off into the autumn.

Oh, edit the hell out of everything why not. Have fun. It your wasting your time with that silly pumpking imo. Then again, whats time if not something if yours to waste as you see fit. Here I am wasting mine.

 

[Frank F.]

OGsPhilosophy ... very autumnal thoughts. Read Rilke? Listen to Greg Brown?

 

[OGsPhotography]

Neither, should I?

 

[Frank F.]

I guess both will respond well to the melancholic tone I hear (like and understand well).

 

[Peeb74 2]

Hint: Sharing an image with pothers that have a similar hobby.

poth·er
ˈpäT͟Hər/
noun
literary

1. a commotion or fuss.
   "don't make such a pother!"

 

[Advanced Photo]

Hint: Sharing an image with pothers that have a similar hobby.

poth·er
ˈpäT͟Hər/
noun
literary

1. a commotion or fuss.
   "don't make such a pother!"

loll cell phones! thanks, fixed.

 

[Peeb74 2]

Hint: Sharing an image with pothers that have a similar hobby.

poth·er
ˈpäT͟Hər/
noun
literary

1. a commotion or fuss.
   "don't make such a pother!"

loll cell phones! thanks, fixed.

Tho this thread is creating quite a ..... pother.

 

[AlanKlein84]

The picture would be more interesting if you rotated the pumpkin so its eyes faced the camera.

It is on the neighbours balcony in 6 meters height. The shot was taken at 300mm. The pumpkin was a bit of foreground for me to show the beautiful light and foliage of the autumnal trees.

The foliage was not in focus, but the pumpkin is. So I assume the pumpkin is the subject of the picture. Regarding not being able to get the correct angle:- the viewer doesn't care what you're problem was in getting the right shot. Your picture has to stand on its own. If it doesn't work, don't print it. I'm sometimes the same way. I don't want to give up my 'babies". But to really have good shots, we have to often be brutal with our own review of our shots. And never make excuses why we didn't catch it right. No one cares.