Photoblog

This is one of the moral questions of photography. Shall I process my images or post them straight out of the camera? Some people are moving this to a different moral level :processing images, especially by adding or removing elements, is cheating and the authors are persons with a low ethical standards. According to them, only very few tweaks are allowed on an image (contrast, saturation, maybe cropping if it is not really changing the overall feeling). In this way the reality is not altered at all, and the photography has a documentary role, reminding the next generations how it was life these days. All of these are true in a way, but this theory is built on a false premise: that the photography should have an exclusive documentary role. Analyzing this, you can just say that it is just a small argumentation mistake. But looking from a different perspective, those people are actually excluding photography from the broad category of art and they recogni...