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Originally Posted by Margaret Pilkington
It is good to broaden the mind with technical pursuits, but if you are going to use them rarely or there is a program that will do the job without all that mental gymnastics then you would be daft to ignore it(the program).
I think photography is a very interesting pursuit, but you have to have suitable subjects to photograph, and techniques that show the subject off to its best advantage.......Dave you have those skills(in spades). You seem to have a good eye for composition of shots(though how I would know that seeing as I have had absolutely no training,is beyond me)
If you get the right shot, then there is little that needs to be done to tweak it.....maybe a crop but anything else is extra and unwarranted.
This is just my opinion - though I bet there are others out there who will agree with me.
You have taken some shots that I would give my eye teeth for...so stop messing!
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I don't really tweak all that much, if I do its usually a crop , lighten, darken, perhaps a change in the temperature. Its good to know how to if you have to. My interest is being out there taking the snap, but with the digital age come some requirements to tweak.
Thanks for the kind words, I think my skill if I have any, is the fact that I enjoy taking photos, for me, it is my refuge from all the pressures that life pushes on you. I find when I am taking pictures the rest of the world fades away at the edges, also when I say to my wife "I will only be an hour" she knows that is not going to happen, and an hour can multiply to three.