Look my photography has never been exceptional. I dare say it's never been good. But, here's my opinion, for what it's worth.
Photos are like friends. You take the worse and the best to form a story. Photos are there to form a story, the good and the bad. For example, I have an image of the perfect shot. A full smile, skin with a glow from a setting sun, perfectly composed, doing something candid with a background that tells the context.
But we need to understand not every shot is going to be that quality. Life means that not everything is perfect or fun. We shouldn't be seeking, that 'one' shot. Photos at its most basic, should be about preserving the memories so we can look back at it one day and be like, oh yeah, that happened.
If every shot was great we showed the world were great and perfect then we are just making them ordinary. The bad memories and those in between happened as well. To simply forget about them seems like a poor representation of the story we tell. When we find the need to make every shot perfect, we turn our photos and by extension, our memories, into something hollow with little meaning.
To retouching photos so that there's no blemishes and no flaws is even worse. You may as well go out and go "oh hey, look at me, I can't deal with having a pimple on my face because I need every to see me as perfect and I'm too insecure about my confidence to deal with it normally."
The advent of filters and this move to black and white allows photographer to invoke emotions. Blues, invoke a sense of melancholy, Reds a feel of warmth and empathy and what not. Again when overused and abused, they lose their meaning. It is very easy to be over saturated with filters and develop a tolerance to it.
~TastyJacks~
P.S. I'm going to AFK from tomorrow (Friday) to Sunday Night. I am going up to Canberra for my Sister's 21st.
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