I’m mainly a nature photographer and I shoot a lot of scenes that I’ll most likely never be able to experience again, not in the way that I cannot go back (those exist as well) but more because the light or conditions never might be the same. I’m a big advocate of getting it right in the camera straight away instead of going in to fix it on the computer!

What might be the reason?

The reason as to why is fairly simple. Post-production can only do a certain bit for our photos and as much as I love design and Photoshop, I’d rather spend the time standing there in the nature, with my camera on the tripod, adding the correct filter as a help and finding the correct exposure for the scene than spending hours afterwards, fixing up my photos in post.

It that just it?

Quite, although there are of course other reasons. Even by using the sophisticated editing features found in today’s software, it cannot replace a correct exposure from the camera. We are still modifying pixels in one way or another and the quality is never going to be as good. Of course you can correct minor exposure details as well as doing some color correction (which might be needed anyway due to the way the camera captures) but having it as correct from the start not only saves you a lot of work, but you can have so much more fun!

Think about it, what makes you feel best. Coming back from a shoot, loading in a lot of photos that need to be heavily processed in Photoshop in order to look good, or, coming back from a shoot to see all of these beautiful images you just have to fix up a tad. Taking it to the next level, which makes you feel the best?

Conclusion on my side

As much as there are tools like Photoshop available, it never beats getting it right the first way. It is great to be able to fix up minor faults but a lot of the time, you could have just done the same while you were out there, saved yourself some time and later, felt like you were a better photographer as well!

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