Photography

I’m 24 and have a budding interest in photography. Right now I have to use the equipment I have. Anyway, I have looked online at professional photographers work (often they are younger than me) and I notice the color pops out a little to much or everything looks just a little to clean. I compared these images to some books I own such as the Photobook and The World’s Best Photography: Photojournalism and didn’t see any work that came off like so many images I’ve looked at online. Basically, the color is just to perfect (almost to a level that seems animated) when compared to legitimate professional photographers. I personally would like to learn to use equipment the right way and not rely on photoshop to make my images presentable. Am I just late and wanting to join a dying breed?

You are so right. Too many young inexperienced and uneducated shooters make mistakes and then try to "fix" them using some kind of digital darkroom. Much like what beginning students do in their first class.

When shooting transparency film, there is no latitude and no way to "fix" anything. We had to be photographers and produce everything in the camera … period.

I use Photoshop (Bridge) to modify my XMP files to reflect my copyright notice, my contact information, my clients contact information and keywords.

I do from time to time use the level control to adjust images that were shot in unusual lighting situations.

Of course when I shoot in RAW, I use Photoshop to create TIFF or JPEG files from them.

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