While I love astro-photography, I warn everyone who searches for space pictures, whether it's galaxies, comets, the moon, planets, or anything outside of our planet, that people use photoshop A LOT. Unlike the fashion industry, where photoshop is highly frowned upon, is the astro photography industry, photoshop isn't frowned upon but encouraged. In order to get the best colors out of pictures, photographers add layers, filters, colors, and alter their space pictures. Here are a few of those examples where the pictures are severely altered, although to someone who doesn't do this often, they might not be able to tell.
Oh yes! As a user of photoshop and Illustrator myself, adding those "enhancements" do make the photo look more spectacular, but I tend to think a photo is even more spectacular if the photographer snapped it as is (and it still looks darn good). It's funny how the industries view things.
Oh yes! As a user of photoshop and Illustrator myself, adding those "enhancements" do make the photo look more spectacular, but I tend to think a photo is even more spectacular if the photographer snapped it as is (and it still looks darn good). It's funny how the industries view things.
ReplyDeleteWhile I can appreciate a photoshopped picture, there's something about photographic the Natural World as it is that is really exciting.
ReplyDeleteThose pictures are beautiful!
ReplyDeletethese are so cool!
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