Why Photoshop Is Important
Before and after: the 1st picture shows what my camera captured; the 2nd shows my mind's eye so to speak. As an artist, I see nothing wrong with Photoshopping my pictures - as a photojournalist, the rules are different however.
posted by Worth Weller @ 2:40 PM
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That is the single best argument in favor of Photoshop I have heard. I generally dislike because it's used so often to make fake pictures to fool people into thinking the picture is real when it is not. For example a photo was once posted of the sunset and the full moon in the same picture and the photographer had made a big deal about six months or so it took to catch them both in the same shot directly vertical to each other. It simply can't be done in one shot. If they had said to capture both and put them in the same frame I'd have believed him. In the comments it was obvious everyone thought he had snapped a single picture to do this. It irritated me that he had fooled them and that they were so ignorant of how the lunar cycle works. Your caption expresses a much better view. Photoshop is art and can be manipulated as such, but to capture the reality of something in a candid shot is important for a different reason. Thanks.
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