Digital Editing Is....

its also saying since a camera cant capture a scene the way our eye does then im going to make the scene look they way i would want it to.

its also our way of not being just another shot of some landmark.  i know our hdr and nik filter use has our photos looking very different from the masses

but then if you look at it again and say "what if?" and fix it, its digital art.

Heard a lecture titled "are you a photographer or a photo editor?" the guy made a lot of good points. The main point was "If you take a thousand images and end up with 30 you're a photo editor. A photographer knows when not to push the button" 

[grin]

Oh I wasn't being negative or anything. I meant mainly in my boudoir photography.
For example:

What's wrong with this picture? Well her eyes are a little bloodshot, a few clicks later that's fixed. Oops I didn't notice a clothing tag was showing, a few clicks later that distracting detail is gone, etc.

Editing is half art, half "fixing" the details in an otherwise great photo. I use a lot of filters and actions and stuff for artistic reasons, but the bulk of my editing is the non-fun stuff, cropping, color correcting and fixing little details.

I think youre being too hard on yourself Susie.
I think you are probably taking great soc photos.
But in the world of boudoir, all those little things of reality just need to slip away to focus on the fantasy.
Youre doing great.

Being nearsighted with astigmatism I see the world as a soft focus 50mm @f/2.8; every images you see of mine is not based on the reality of the world when I took the photograph. It's the world as I want you to see it. I believe that as photographers, we invite the world into our imagination and show it the fantasy we have created.

Or, we just make housewives look ten years younger and hide the fact that they smoked a cigarette in the car on the way to the studio to calm down because they were nervous.

I want my pictures to be part fantasy, of course, and that is the fun part. It's not all drudgery.