Its Christmas, and I thought I can do my little part in sharing with all, a secret I have been using all these years to brutally improve my photography.
As most of you are aware, digital photography is, in today’s context, about photography + post processing. And factually, many has gone to lean their skill set development towards post processing, which is where the problem lies. Post processing is always comfortable and conducive, and cost next to nothing (to some) to begin with, compared to hefty camera gears which ain’t raffle tickets. It undermines photographic techniques, lightings, aperture rule, positioning, everything. It makes lame photographers and diffuses real satisfaction in releasing that shutter.
My sincere advice to budding enthusiasts is to first ditch those Adobe, Apple, Capture One, DxO Optics Pro software and attempt to construct new images without them. Utilise only bundled software that comes with your camera for any post processing you may need.
Do this for your next 100K images.
(Note – 95% of images from Nikon Studio are shot with the above principle)
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