On 2014-03-09 17:05, Jan Faul wrote: > Digital photographers by and large believe they can fix anything > by running a mundane boring badly composed composition through > Photoshop. But Photoshop is not a miracle program - it only follows > orders and if one gives it garbage to work with that’s what will also > come out. This is an absurd claim. I recently presented several pairs of photos to a group of (largely amateur, I think) sports photographers asking which they thought were better. The answers were in terms of there not being a story visible (or one having a better story than the other), some issues of sightlines and directing the eye, complaints about background clutter, and occasional remarks that "cropping can't fix this". *Not one* of the comments was in terms of how to fix any of the photos in Photoshop, and these are people who all shoot digitally and in considerable quantity. -- David Dyer-Bennet, dd-b@xxxxxxxx; http://dd-b.net/ Snapshots: http://dd-b.net/dd-b/SnapshotAlbum/data/ Photos: http://dd-b.net/photography/gallery/ Dragaera: http://dragaera.info Nikon DSLR photo list: http://d4scussion.com
