In yesterday's post, I included a picture that had been enhanced with an HDR filter; as a result, the image looked fantastic. However, I want to state right now that up until that point, none of the pictures I had posted had been retouched, save for cropping or the occasional blurring out of a plate on a vehicle.
While I now have the ability to enhance pictures and post them, I will only do so rarely; I prefer to post untouched photographs taken with my phone and main camera. I think I would be cheating if I constantly posted heavily modified images rather than made the effort to take decent pictures. Imagine if this blog contained recordings of me singing, but I Auto-Tuned myself: it wouldn't be right. Better to make it impressive in the first place.
So that's my position on enhanced images. They look amazing, but I prefer natural pictures; touched images will be rare here. My phone and camera don't produce HDR photographs and I should not give the illusion that they do.
I'm guilty of almost always clicking on Auto-Enhance.
ReplyDeleteHey, if you do that, it's fine with me! :) (Not that you need my approval, of course.)
DeleteI feel the same way! Although sometimes I do love making the photos black and white or redder or bluer... but not often. :D
ReplyDeleteAny way you decide is fine. :)
DeleteAll digital photos get processed in some way so you shouldn't feel like you cheated.
ReplyDeleteTrue, but I'd prefer to cut down on the processing as much as possible.
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