[prince]

Hello Everyone,
I was talking to one of my friends and we got into this topic, I guess a debate, about what is photography? In his opinion, photography is ONLY about "an image directly from the camera, in its purest form, without any post processing" not even adjusting brightness, contrast, sharpness, not even a hint of photoshoping or using any graphic editing software..

I was, and am of the opinion that post processing is an important and integral part of photography. Though not all images require to be post processed.

All the various blogs of professionals I have visited, from and off the forum, have images, almost all of those that are on sites, which are post processed.

So what finally is photography? How do you say it's a "photograph" vs. "image" (I mean image = edited image) where you are not sure if it is the person's photography skills or his/her image editing skills..

Thought I'd put out for discussion and see what others think.

I'd love to know your views.

Thanks