<p>What's real anyway? there is not blunt reality in photography, it's all about your prespective; how you choose your angle, your frame and how to approach your subject. Photography is how you manipulate the visual realm surrounding you. I spent a lot of time neglecting digital advancements, and focusing on minimally edited photographs, however you should always present your work in the best possible way even with manipulation, old days photographers, used tricks to edit their work with the available material and film evironment. Now when you display your work on the internet, it shows differently, you customize it to present it the way you think is best.<br>
But for me a heavily edited photograph with beautiful colors that look fake, bland portraits and simply technically correct images is something I can't react to. I accepted long ago that there are types of artists, one has a stronger point than the other, one is a spontaneous photographer with clever right on time shots, one is good with HDR, the other is a still life person, one is more oriented to graphics but what matters is the feel it gives.</p>
Is the real not good enough?
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<p>What's real anyway? there is not blunt reality in photography, it's all about your prespective; how you choose your angle, your frame and how to approach your subject. Photography is how you manipulate the visual realm surrounding you. I spent a lot of time neglecting digital advancements, and focusing on minimally edited photographs, however you should always present your work in the best possible way even with manipulation, old days photographers, used tricks to edit their work with the available material and film evironment. Now when you display your work on the internet, it shows differently, you customize it to present it the way you think is best.<br>
But for me a heavily edited photograph with beautiful colors that look fake, bland portraits and simply technically correct images is something I can't react to. I accepted long ago that there are types of artists, one has a stronger point than the other, one is a spontaneous photographer with clever right on time shots, one is good with HDR, the other is a still life person, one is more oriented to graphics but what matters is the feel it gives.</p>