Re: My opinion.
Hi Daisy, welcome and what a cracking first post
Editing: First thing to remember is that a digital image always benefits from a little sharpening, it's just the nature of them so there's no cheat in doing that.
Second thing to remember is that a camera's dynamic range is not as good as ours so, when we look at a bright light our eyes adjust and the same is true when we peek into the shadows. Post processing (PP) permits you to do exactly that by reducing the highlights and increasing the shadows. There's no cheat in that.
For those two actions, then, all your doing is making the image reflect what you saw with your own eyes and many photographers will stop there.
But is there anything wrong with taking it further? Not in my mind and, perhaps, the third thing to remember is that a photographer (unless, for example, reporting a news event) is an artist who is creating a pleasing picture using a camera in the same way a painter using oils or water colours. PP skills are just a part of that.
When you chose to record jpegs the camera is doing pretty much that anyway but is usually heavy handed and produces results that may disappoint. Furthermore, in producing the jpeg for you the camera has thrown away a lot of the digital information you'd need to do the job properly so always shoot RAW as that records everything the sensor saw.
Oh, one more thing, with Light Room, even if you don't touch the processing side, the Library module provides you with an excellent cataloguing tool to keep track of the thousands of images that you'll soon amass.
Cheers,
John
Hi Daisy, welcome and what a cracking first post
Editing: First thing to remember is that a digital image always benefits from a little sharpening, it's just the nature of them so there's no cheat in doing that.
Second thing to remember is that a camera's dynamic range is not as good as ours so, when we look at a bright light our eyes adjust and the same is true when we peek into the shadows. Post processing (PP) permits you to do exactly that by reducing the highlights and increasing the shadows. There's no cheat in that.
For those two actions, then, all your doing is making the image reflect what you saw with your own eyes and many photographers will stop there.
But is there anything wrong with taking it further? Not in my mind and, perhaps, the third thing to remember is that a photographer (unless, for example, reporting a news event) is an artist who is creating a pleasing picture using a camera in the same way a painter using oils or water colours. PP skills are just a part of that.
When you chose to record jpegs the camera is doing pretty much that anyway but is usually heavy handed and produces results that may disappoint. Furthermore, in producing the jpeg for you the camera has thrown away a lot of the digital information you'd need to do the job properly so always shoot RAW as that records everything the sensor saw.
Oh, one more thing, with Light Room, even if you don't touch the processing side, the Library module provides you with an excellent cataloguing tool to keep track of the thousands of images that you'll soon amass.
Cheers,
John
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