A guy really into photography will already spend tons of time on flickr, dpreview, corbis, webshots, interface lift and a host of other sites. Not to mention all the photoshop tutorials and tips out there that every PHOTOGRAPHER must know. Think about it, when was the last time you saw an untweaked photo out there on the net? Every photo is super leveled to the max, with the contrast jacked to god knows what levels. Exposure, aperture priority, shutter speed, depth of field, are all thrown out the window, they’re not longer a PRIORITY!
No PHOTO seems to be acceptable, unless its NAT GEO worthy. I mean come on, when was the last time the parakeet’s plumes looked so colorful? And I don’t recall the Yucatan rainforest being quite so super green!! Hey I’m all for tightening a photo so it can confirm to the confines of what we can actually see within the VISIBLE SPECTRUM with our Naked eyes. Removing Over casts, color casts, flushed images, shakes, cropping are all great. But I have to draw the line at sprucing up the contrast so much that the hudson river looks like a can of blue paint!!!
When is someone going to start a website for good old fashioned photos that aren’t tampered with. I long for the day when I can look at a photo’s meta tag and not see ADOBE PHOTOSHOP CS4 OR ELEMENTS on it!!!! Come on guys, purists unite! Someone should start a website!
Photographers have enough to worry about as it is. There’s lenses, equipment, tripods, diffusers and lighting among a million other things. So now they have to be masters in 500$ software too? Go figure…. I long for the day, when an average guy had like 4 hobbies tops. Instead of being a jack o lantern of all trades!
