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« Last post by LEE on Yesterday at 11:30:18 pm »
I edit everything because I shoot in RAW, which necessitates it.
There's a lot of nonsense spoken about "Straight out of camera" images. Nothing is "Straight Out of Camera".
If you shoot JPGs then your camera just "photoshopped" your image ... based on decisions made by an engineer in Japan.
Sharpness was added, saturation was increased, plus other tweaks to the raw image.
In my mind it's better to shoot in RAW and tweak it how you want, rather than how a Japanese engineer thinks all your images need adjusting.
Ansel Adams, and all the great photographers in history Photoshopped their images .... in a Photo Shop (Dark Room). They chose papers for contrast. They dodged and burned. They hand painted negatives and prints.
Don't feel guilty about editing your images. All the great images will have been manipulated at some point.
No camera can recreate an image the way the human eye and brain interprets the scene.
I use Photoshop/Lightroom to create an image that looks how it felt at the time, to me, not what my camera thought it should look like.