>>3796631some further thoughts
- The lines between a "natural" edit and manipulation are very blurry. What is manipulation? Changing the white balance? Removing sensor dust from the image? Removing a person?
Even back in the film days, photos were often manipulated.
- Some people oppose "editing" because they want their photos to be "realistic". See above regarding firmware vs. you doing the edit.
But a photo can never be realistic, if it was, then looking at a picture of the sun would both warm your skin and damage your eyesight. It does neither.
And a film comparison again, Cross-Process completely fucks with your colors so they're obviously false, but it can look good so people did it. I don't see many people complaining about Cross-Processing being "unrealistic", it's obvious that it is.
- Sensor is unrealistic, the lens is unrealistic, the filter is unrealistic etc.
- If you like your SOOC colors, that's fine. I like some of my cam's presets more than what I can make in darktable too sometimes. Just be aware that JPEG is a very compressed and limiting format.
Looks like that's it! Got to go.
