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Originally Posted by zannster
SOOC. Occasionally I'll crop, if there's a real good reason. Otherwise, all I do is reduce size and then post online. Most of my pictures serve as a record. We don't have any family in this area, and many of the pics I take are largely for the grandparents. I've sort of developed an attitude about post processing. LOL I understand manipulating a picture as an artwork (and some of them are fantastic), but I don't think that every picture needs to be art in that way. I like seeing the scene in the photo as close as possible to the way it actually looked. I think the effort should be to produce a photo that resembles reality with the camera rather than manipulate it afterwards.
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The thing is, back in the film days it was impossible to avoid making processing decisions that affected the final outcome. It's just that most people were used to having a lab tech make all the decisions for them. The vast majority of stuff people do in post is the same stuff they did in the wet darkroom.