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Re:On Taking Photographs by anta40 on Thursday March 16, 2023 @11:14PM (#35192524)
Whenever people complain that this or that photo are postprocsessed/edited (not "straight of our camera"), I always tell them that postprocessing already exists decades before Photoshop. Those were what Ansel Adams and friends did hours in the darkroom.
Re:On Taking Photographs by Zak on Thursday March 16, 2023 @11:37PM (#35192711)
Straight out of camera jpegs are also postprocessed, but the decisions are made by software running on the camera instead of interactively. Anyone complaining about this has a poor understanding of the technology.

Of course, there are legitimate concerns about deceptive manipulations of photographs that purport to be documentary in nature.

Re:On Taking Photographs by forgottheoldone on Saturday March 18, 2023 @06:03AM (#35207729)
I once assisted a photographer who spent weeks, in some cases months planning a single photo, scouting locations etc, then hauled her gear (big format film) there, and took the photo which more or less turned out as she imagined. After spending time in the darkroom and then post-processing the scans on her giant Mac, that is ^^ But she knew what exact photo she wanted, and how to get it, and then "just" worked her ass off to do just that.

It's not what I like doing -- even if I had it in me -- because I like finding things, and also looking at things nobody thought of, until there was a photo of them; but it still deeply impressed me. It really was as if she was painting with light.