>>3680373>How heavily do you edit your photos? Quite a lot. I mainly do B&W conversions using Niks Silver Efx plugin in Photoshop...which gives me a load of tools and control over the conversion...in my experience it gives me the best results. I also use a DxO ViewPoint plugin to correct perspective. Then some dodging and burning and maybe luminosity masks.
>Do you only use lightroom kind of edits? I use Camera Raw which lets you make the same edits as Lightroom but only use it to give me a nice base to start with before using Silver Efex. Correcting exposure, lens distortion, WB and some very light sharpening.
>do you ever add something that isnt there? More often than not I take away things rather than add them.
>does the photo ever rely on how it will be edited?A lot of the time I shoot with a B&W conversion in mind or with cropping in mind...so to a certain extent, yes.
> Should I keep working on my editing skills or is it better to just let the photo speak for itself? Being able to process your shots is a good skill to have but it all depends on your vision.
