through the Lens

jenniferrante asked: Do you photoshop your photography?

I don’t, with the exception of the pictures I took in Georgia. I don’t really know how I feel about editing. I like natural photography, but it doesn’t always capture the greater meaning of a subject as it appears firsthand to our eyes and other cognitive senses. So sometimes editing can be much more powerful than not editing. On the other hand, I don’t know if I’m good enough to edit pictures without compromising their natural beauty. I think it’s way too easy to go overboard with editing, and I’ve seen a lot of pictures that look pretty but are just so grossly over-edited they really don’t warrant a second look. So I still don’t know how I feel about editing. It can be very beneficial but, at least for my skill level, has a small window of which the benefits outweigh the detriments.