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Image edited using Light Room
| Now -a-day Photoshop and photo editing are a guaranteed process in the production of most of our media, be it advertisement or social profiles. Images are airbrushed and polished to look a certain way. But is it a tool to enhance a photograph or manipulate it? I began using editing tools to fix simple lighting errors in my photographs. When I used my camera I would use a manual setting so I was constantly forced to change shutter speed and aperture depending on the lighting. The shutter speed of a camera is the speed and length of time that a lens is open while taking a picture. A fast shutter speed will only be open for a quick second so very little light will be captured. While a low shutter speed will mean the lens is open for a longer amount of time so a lot of light will be captured in the image. Aperture indicates how wide open a camera lens will be. The more open the lens is the more light will be seen in the image. | As a beginning photographer I experimented a lot with these two settings and mistakenly ruined many images because I allowed to much light to enter the camera or vice versa. Then I began to use Adobe Light Room, and editing tool that enables the user to change light setting and the shadow quality of the image. Light Room has various features that allows a user to not only change the light setting but to enhance color, blur any blemishes highlight various features of an image. The images above show the way in which I was able to enhance different colors, making the image look more vibrant and creating more contrast. Yet my editing skills were limited compared to the changes others have incorporated in their images. Light Room has been used to bring more life and depth to various photographs. Some may say its a cheat to reality, but in a way its a form of artwork where a photograph is simply the skeleton of a larger work that needs refinement. In the end its a matter of opinion. |
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