There Is No Un-Suck Filter

Photography has changed so much since I first took up the craft. With the advent of digital imaging and the incredible pace of its progress, we’re really just making it up as we go along. And as we do, the various purists and holdouts take one position on the role of programs like Adobe Photoshop or Lightroom in the digital darkroom, and the technophiles take another. Very few of the arguments made one way or the other ever seem to touch on topics like “vision,” and that’s when I lose interest in them.

As discussed, three images go into a final photograph—the image you envision, the image you capture in camera, and the image you refine in post-production using software-based darkrooms like Adobe Photoshop Lightroom ...

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