Is Photoshop cheating?
I've been doing a great deal of reading about photography for the last 3 years or so, since my first DSLR purchase, and I can rarely if ever seem to make use of that knowledge when I'm in the field. After my initial confusion of F-stops and Shutter speeds, I finally got a handle on it, theoretically speaking, but when I'm out taking pictures all that information seems to fly right out of my brain.
A lot of these things can be corrected in Photoshop later, but isn't the whole purpose of photography to get the image you want on the first try, with no post processing whatsoever? I always feel like a bit of a failure when I have to resort to changing levels or sometimes even cropping.
It's a different story if you are going crazy and adding all kinds of effects or colors etc for artistic purposes, but if your point is to make a true representation of what you've seen, then what are your thoughts on using photoshop?
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