Post your photographs

You visit some beautiful places Sara, and always manage to capture a moment perfectly.

Are these just photographs people have taken or are they photshopped because they looks awesome?

Any good photographer does some level of post-processing so I'd bet that Sara does some - but you can't fake a beautiful shot. All of the photoshop skill in the world can't make a crap photo look that good - you have to have something good to start with, and then if you know what you're doing you use photoshop to enhance your shot, to bring out the best parts, to present it to the world how you saw the scene.

Ah I get you.

I used to have photoshop, I loved it but I lost it when my PC got wiped.

True - every single photograph you'll find printed in magazines, in galleries, or whereever is somehow manipulated. Either in the dark room when it was shot on film, or in Photoshop (the digital dark room) when it's digital. For example, the old masters of landscape photography even manipulated their photographs to the extend that they sometimes added in a completely different sky to get it all exposed well. As it is (even up to this point) technically impossible to get all the contrast we see with our eyes captured in a single photograph. With digital photography people tend to see 'photoshopping' as something bad, while it's no different than what happened in the dark room.

So yes, my photographs have been photoshopped, but I try to make them represent the real scene as I've seen it as close as possible. And yes, these are my photographs .

Amazing once again Sara. Beautiful!

I often see people who go on and on about how they think it's a cheat to do any post processing at all, yet they seem not to have any photos of their own to show and definitely, as you say, people seem to see it as bad with digital photography without realising that photoshop is just a digital darkroom - just that it happens to be faster, cheaper and easier. If photography was just about snapping a shot and showing it off then there wouldn't be many good ones because there's a limit to what you can do in the camera. It usually seems to be people who have no clue about it that try to pass judgement too.

Sara, those pictures are amazing!

me looking out into budapest. no post production stuff done at all. it'd probably look dynamite if it was messed around with but i like it as is.