fmw wrote: When you have composed an image, fired the shutter and captured the subject on your sensor, you have engaged in photography. Anything else you do with the image is something else. In the old days, the darkroom was a place where the image could be massaged into a final print. I never viewed that as photography but rather image editing, creative though it might be. Today, our darkroom is a computer and the editing software handles the massaging. That too is image editing in exactly the same sense. The resulting image is a combination of photography and the massaging of the image regardless of the method used.
Ansel Adams, the famous nature photographer did good photography. It was his darkroom work, however, that made those images as impactful as they are. He was a true genius in the darkroom. I think the same thing holds true for digital imaging. Whatever digital tools are available are good as long as they are used well. Much less skill is involved than what we or Ansel Adams used to do in the darkroom. For that reason digital editing tools are often used badly or just excessively. Great images always have an interesting subject and that is the photography part.
TCav wrote: Photography is the art and science of recording radiant energy.
The real question isn't "At what point is photography not photography?"
The real question is "At what point does a photograph stop being a photograph?"
The answer is: When the original photographic image is supplanted by the effects of post processing. That is, if all you're doing is altering the color and contrast, it's still a photograph. Once you start messing with content, it's not a photograph anymore.
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