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Yes to Pro work, taken with even more expensive gear than that. Grab just about any published image from most pros, even going back to well before the digital era, and probably 95% of them have been "handled."
"Back in the day" my "photo editing" was done with X-acto knives, pencils, water based paints and dyes, bleach, and tiny, tiny little paint brushes, smudge sticks, cotton *****, and anything else we could find that would work. We "edited" negatives and prints before publishing, and when I got into TV, before broadcast.
Magazine covers, ads, internal spread sheets, architectural photos, you name it, are manipulated at many different stages, including during developing and making of copy negs, etc. Even just straightening perspectives with enlarger tilt and shift, changing gamma selectively, dodging, burning, etc.
Even original Weston prints were manipulated at various stages before final release.
Photo manipulation goes all the way back to Daguerre. (Probably even earlier.)
Show me a magazine spread that hasn't been manipulated before publishing and I'll show you a non-professional shop doing the work - or one that fell asleep half way through the job.
Tom
"Back in the day" my "photo editing" was done with X-acto knives, pencils, water based paints and dyes, bleach, and tiny, tiny little paint brushes, smudge sticks, cotton *****, and anything else we could find that would work. We "edited" negatives and prints before publishing, and when I got into TV, before broadcast.
Magazine covers, ads, internal spread sheets, architectural photos, you name it, are manipulated at many different stages, including during developing and making of copy negs, etc. Even just straightening perspectives with enlarger tilt and shift, changing gamma selectively, dodging, burning, etc.
Even original Weston prints were manipulated at various stages before final release.
Photo manipulation goes all the way back to Daguerre. (Probably even earlier.)
Show me a magazine spread that hasn't been manipulated before publishing and I'll show you a non-professional shop doing the work - or one that fell asleep half way through the job.
Tom
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well, I would say that I like... butttttttttttttttttttttttttt, I dislike your _____ing about forgetting to cut some zipties... I dont see what the problem is
