seriously, you might want to put a little more thought into it.
Thats just me and how I snapshot. I have been doing this photoing since late 1970ies, starting with my Nikon F2 photomic, I just take the photo and are happy with it. I didnt give a shit if its a piece of art, and I still dont care if its a superb classy art of photo art deserving a space in Metropolitan
Actually, I have had ONE serious photo course, back in 1965, my teacher at high school arranged darkroom classes, some of us did get it and are now prof. photographers. I never got it, I just took of and walked in the forest and shot every patch of flowers I encountered.
Thats why all you are sayin about Layers dont fit in my brain. I have eventually seen that Photoshop is offering some layer option, but I havent the faintest idea of what it is. For me, it bring memories of ice cream topping of a cake, nothing else.
Now old and seriously dull, I still just take a shot of them patches. There was no room for me as serious or professional photographer, I dont consider myself as even an amateur photographer.
I am just the mountaineer walking the woods and mountains, who happens to bring along a camera to bring home some glimpses of what I experienced on that trip. I dont compose or give any big thougths of framing or exposure, I just point and shoot, hoping for the best.
Thats why I am walking around with a d750 and 24-120 and the 105 macro in the backpack.
I could easily used a Canon Ixus 70 instead, gotten all the photos I wanted. No problem at all. In fact I did that for some years, from 2001 to 2007, and again 2010 to 2014.
As I now look back at the thousands of jpegs I snapshot with that Ixus type, these are worthless, both regarding to use at my website, and as subject for enlargment when I need just one of the flowers in the patch I shot.
Thus enter the RAW and Canon d30 back in 2006, had it until 2010, sold it, was so stone broke.
These was photos of a quality usable for all my needs at web and enlargments.
Them years from 2010 uptil now was mainly at a Hospital, either seriously ill or recovering of loss of eyesight. Got kind of used to being a returning patient at our local Hospital
Thus enter Nikon D750.
Should I continue walking in the woods and mountains, snapshoting the flowes and mountains and my dog, I simply couldnt use an Ixus -- due to my bad eyesight I really didnt the what was going on on the screen ;-(
Thats why I dug out my old Nikon F3 HP from the attick. Hey! I could see everything in the finder!
And then the wallet decided between d810 and d750. Most of the lenses were my old friends, no problem. But the d750 solved every other problem, even with glasses I now see them patches of flowers, even in rain or snow covering both me, the finder and my dear beloved Nikon d750. Which in fact resembles very much the old Nikon F3 Hp "feeling" of nature photgraphy!
This is a yellow boosted photo from 2006;
2008, with my lovely C d30;
2016;
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