Some folks have taken the efficiency of digital editing and turned it on its head. Originally designed to make photographic editing quick, effective and incredibly precise, some are using digital editing to postpone completion of images. Take the incredibly precise and numerous digital editing tools available in Photoshop. I have seen explanations of digital editing techniques used on one digital file going through multiple processing steps with mind numbing details and sweating out the details at the pixel level.
Why?
Viewers can’t see the details at that level, much less care about the time and effort spent in making the image “just so.” The only people that will know about it are people the photographer tells about it. Maybe they will care about the technical details in kind of a technical one-upmanship way.
But what this fuss and bother about inconsequential (invisible?) details does is postpone the completion of an image. So finish the image and move on to the next image.
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