When you photograph something, do you really want your camera or computer to have a say as to the final look and feel of your image? I have said this before, and I am sure I’ll say it again – post processing your digital images is not something you should think of doing. It is [...]
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Digital Photography: What? How? Why?
Being Thursday it would normally be guest blogger day on Photo-Africa but today is slightly different. This has been a long time coming and is part of a much larger picture which is slowly but surely coming in to focus. Exciting, all be it very busy, times. ’Regular programming’ will continue from tomorrow and next [...]
The Goal is to Improve. Not Change.
The processing of wildlife images remain a highly debated subject. Yes or no? If yes, how much? Recently I was asked how a specific wildlife photograph could be processed in Photoshop or Lightroom in order to improve it. Wait!! Before we all get excited and start arguing the rights and wrongs of processing wildlife images [...]
Should You Manipulate or Alter Your Digital Images?
Having spent quite a bit of time browsing through magazines and various web sites the last while, this question keeps on popping up and there does not seem to be any ‘civilised’ agreement about the answer. Should you ‘Photoshop’ or ‘alter’ your digital images? Why should this be such a contentious issue? Whether for a [...]
