Real Life Adventures by Gary Wise and Lance Aldrich for November 22, 2023

One just did.

She made a cheap shot. Photographers have always been using all kinds of technology to get the shot or effect they want: tripods, various lenses, soft focus, special lighting, taking hundreds or thousands of shots automatically and then picking out the ones that work, retouching in the darkroom, etc.

Waco on, wax off.

Airbrushed photos look good, but they aren’t real.

Since you’re trying to make your photo look like what you actually saw, I don’t see anything wrong with you using software to adjust the raw image.

Seems like a lot of work just to post a picture of his beer and nachos.

I use mine for taking power lines out of landscape scenes and things like that.

He created the picture he wanted, he just did in stages. Editing is the real skillful part of photography and movie making.

Does that make it more like a painting?

So just like main stream media then.

I took an online photography course about a year ago, and one of the most useful takeaways from it was that, “You don’t take a photo, you make a photo.” I enjoy using software to improve my photos or apply a specific effect, and I don’t apologize for it.