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<blockquote data-quote="Samo" data-source="post: 609282" data-attributes="member: 42955">You will find many basic digital photography courses where they do not allow auto and where they propose that post processing is not photography but rather image manipulation.&nbsp; They do this at the entry level to keep students focussed on the exposure triangle in other words the real meat and potatoes of the craft.&nbsp; When the student really grasps the fundamentals it makes the more advanced part of it, photo manipulation, an effective tool as opposed to a means to an end.&nbsp; The means to an end use of post processing is what we often see everywhere we look.&nbsp; This is where the cooked pictures come in.&nbsp; Post is a very valuable part of the process but do not make the mistake of using it as a crutch.An observation about the image in post 13.&nbsp; Cropped at the knee.&nbsp; Don't know about that.&nbsp; Maybe she was just showing the skirt but it sure does bug me when photographers crop at joints.&nbsp; She does have 900+ pages there so she must have acquired some skill already....but cropping at a joint???</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Samo, post: 609282, member: 42955"] You will find many basic digital photography courses where they do not allow auto and where they propose that post processing is not photography but rather image manipulation. They do this at the entry level to keep students focussed on the exposure triangle in other words the real meat and potatoes of the craft. When the student really grasps the fundamentals it makes the more advanced part of it, photo manipulation, an effective tool as opposed to a means to an end. The means to an end use of post processing is what we often see everywhere we look. This is where the cooked pictures come in. Post is a very valuable part of the process but do not make the mistake of using it as a crutch. An observation about the image in post 13. Cropped at the knee. Don't know about that. Maybe she was just showing the skirt but it sure does bug me when photographers crop at joints. She does have 900+ pages there so she must have acquired some skill already....but cropping at a joint??? [/QUOTE]

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