[superwaxer]

Originally Posted by henk4

I think Superwaxer kindly explained how he constructed the picture that now seems to be winning. And I know we had the discussion about the use of photoshop many times before. In this case for me things have gone too far. I think photography is about what you can do with a camera, and not with a computer. If he had made the shot by overlapping exposures, it would have been a masterpiece, now it is purely artificial.

I have to admit, Im very sensitive when it comes to post-processing my photos. In this case I felt that what I saw was not what I was able to put on film due to not having a wide-angle lens. Although I did some photoshop work on the picture, I dont feel that its "artificial" as such. I simply created what I saw. Isnt that what photography is about?

If what I have done is "artificial", then using filters and burning a print should also be considered as "artificial".

"Photography is, at its core, the manipulation of light, and the light captured by millions of photosites on a sensor is just as valid as that captured by blobs of chemicals on a roll of film." (David Seager)