Post processing in digital photography can be a tricky thing. How far can one go in processing the picture, so it's still can be called a genuine photograph. The border where the digital photography ends and other kinds of digital graphic arts begins, seems to be rather blurry and not definite at all. Without passing a judgment, it is still important to look for an answer to that question and set guidelines for one self.
We knew, we will get into that problem sooner or later and we will have to make a choice.And so, we have chosen our way. We have formulated our own definition of digital photography and of how far we can go in post processing of our work.
Our way is the way of tradition. Even though we do use the digital camera instead of film , and we do post process our work on the computers rather then in a darkrooms, we have chosen to stick to traditional way of treating and developing photos. To sum it up, every work we publish on this blog is manipulated only as much and using same techniques, as we could do with the image captured on film and developed in a darkroom.
Different use of aperture, shutter speeds, camera motion, color filters, gradient filters, cross processing and spilt toning, were present in traditional photography for years, and so we have an option of using it in our digital workflow as well.
As a consequence anything that exceeds the techniques of traditional photography in any way is not in our interest at the moment and to avoid temptation, we decided not to process our pictures in Photoshop or similar editors at all.
To take pictures we use Nikons D60, D90, D300 with lenses 18-55mm f/3.5-5.6, 18-105mm f/3.5-5.6, 18-200mm f/3.5-5.6 and 50mm f/1.8
To process the pictures we use Adobe Lightroom 2 and iPhoto'08 and iPhoto'09.
So that's a little insight into our processing process.
Best Regards,
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