Photography tip #1: Post-process
Learn post-processing
By learning post-processing, even simple ones such as tweaking contrast, saturation, and cropping, you can greatly enhance your photos.
I used to feel that editing of photos is a form of cheating, altering it from the original and misrepresenting the 'real picture' somehow. However as I continued on my photography journey, I realised that the moment I pressed the shutter button, I've already altered the photo.
"How is that so?" one may ask. By simply choosing what goes into the photo and what has been left out, the photographer has already altered the 'facts' by letting you see only what he/she intended you to see. Ruben Salvadori has an interesting project, Photojournalism Behind the Scenes, which demonstrates how photojournalists affects the environment they are documenting.
In addition to choosing what the viewer sees, your camera of choice has also done some processing of the picture for you. Try taking the same picture from the same angle with different cameras - e.g. Nikon, Canon, Fujifilm... They will each produce photos of different contrast, saturation, depth of view etc. as the processing engine on each of these cameras are different.
Since the photo will be altered anyways, why not edit it to YOUR liking instead? Crop it, tweak it, do whatever it takes to make your point stand out. Ultimately it's your photograph so go ahead and take charge of it instead of leaving it to that little chip on the camera. :)
By learning post-processing, even simple ones such as tweaking contrast, saturation, and cropping, you can greatly enhance your photos.
I used to feel that editing of photos is a form of cheating, altering it from the original and misrepresenting the 'real picture' somehow. However as I continued on my photography journey, I realised that the moment I pressed the shutter button, I've already altered the photo.
"How is that so?" one may ask. By simply choosing what goes into the photo and what has been left out, the photographer has already altered the 'facts' by letting you see only what he/she intended you to see. Ruben Salvadori has an interesting project, Photojournalism Behind the Scenes, which demonstrates how photojournalists affects the environment they are documenting.
In addition to choosing what the viewer sees, your camera of choice has also done some processing of the picture for you. Try taking the same picture from the same angle with different cameras - e.g. Nikon, Canon, Fujifilm... They will each produce photos of different contrast, saturation, depth of view etc. as the processing engine on each of these cameras are different.
Since the photo will be altered anyways, why not edit it to YOUR liking instead? Crop it, tweak it, do whatever it takes to make your point stand out. Ultimately it's your photograph so go ahead and take charge of it instead of leaving it to that little chip on the camera. :)
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