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Is it necessary for a photographer that he has knowledge of editing alsso?

please express your views.

thanks,

fahmina

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fahmi

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I have taken good photos without editing. Keys are composition and knowing how to use the camera features.

I produce better photos with some editing. Today, I consider it to be 50% of my photo effort. You don't have to be a photoshop pro, but you need to learn how to tweek exposure, contrast, color, etc.

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what a good queston Fahmina

it would be really interesting to hear others viewpoints on this.

personally, i do not believe it is absolutely necessary - my thoughts are that the more you can do with your camera the less you should have to to afterwards.

Saying that, in the days before digital photography, photographers were able to manipulate their images in the darkroom. i believe famous photograhers used techniques in the darkroom to produce the desired outcome for their images. so perhaps it is necessary after all.

to transform a bad image into a good one is not possible but software can certainly help to improve on an image by tweaking, as Buddy points out. i wonder though if it can also make us more careless when taking the photograph.

do you use editing software Fahmina? and if so do you think it is neccesary?
pippa

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Ansel Adams once said that the negitive is only 50% of the work.....He was the king of darkroom manipulation.... With that said....... If you do not get it right in the camera first....you will never have a magnificate photo after editting!
The camera has it's limitations....if you get it as close to perfect as you can in the camera.....it makes it that much easier to end up with a beautiful shot after editting.
So my answer is YES.....it is important to learn how to "develope" your negitives! .....Just like it was in film days!
Cheers, and great question!
Joe

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I would have to say it depends.

If you shoot film or slides you can either develop them yourself, or take them to a lab, where they develop them and make all the choices. (contrast, brightness, saturation...)

If you shoot .jpg, it depends on what your intended use is. Your camera makes most of these decisions in .jpg. You can over ride these, but not without degradation to your file. For web viewing.... usually it's fine. For print, again, it depends..... on the size of the print and your printer.

If you shoot raw, all you have is a *digital negative* that needs to be developed.

As Joe said, if you don't have a good image to start with, no amount of processing will make it a great one.

There are some pretty easy basic steps to learn that can help a lot for post processing.

But most important:

Nail your exposure, have an interesting uncluttered image, have it in the desired focus..... and you are well on your way

Carolyn

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I would say modern day photographer must know about editing tools as well. i can no more agree to the fact the photograph has to be good when its taken. i however would say that little errors in composition, lightening etc can very easily be done away using software tools.

Actually thats what u ask you camera to do at first place. for example over/under exposures, High ISO NR, etc are told to the cameras and they do it for you. Well what if u forgot to do that but u could capture a wonderful moment? if u cant edit little errors while taking a pic in hurry, i think its then useless to convert to digital photography. why not to use old cheaper gears then?

So i would say that digital photographer must know the editing tools.

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