Do you think post production counts as part of photography?

For photographers, there is no so-called "correct" ** or composition in the early stage, and there is no "correct" retouching in the later stage. After mastering enough photography techniques and knowledge of post-retouching, people can capture light and shadow according to their own understanding, construct pictures, and create a work through their own understanding and feelings.

Photography has always been divided into two parts: pre-production and post-production. This was true even in the age of film. It's just that at that time, it was done with the help of darkroom technology for post-production.

Photography is like painting a picture, from composition to color to light, every step has been carefully calculated by the author. In the same way, the camera is just a paintbrush, and PS is the color material, and both are indispensable.

A good film is for everyone's eyes, and beautiful colors can make people happy, and this is the function of post-production. There must be a limit to the color of the original film!

Of course it belongs, and it's really important, photography includes the early and post, but try not to leave the things that can be solved in the early stage to the later stage, and the creative techniques in the later stage of photography are more abundant, and many times your idea is that you need to express what you say you want to express through the later stage. ‍‍

Any photograph of the first image needs to be post-processed, and the same is true in the film era. Today's digital photography, regardless of the format of shooting, requires post-processing, the difference is automatic post-production or manual post-production. The so-called direct film,In fact, the camera manufacturer has built-in relevant parameters,When you shoot, the processor in the camera will automatically process and compress the ** according to the manufacturer's preset parameters。

Because the pre-shooting may only be part of the creation, the post-retouching technology and special effects are all part of the creation. For example, in the creative advertisements we usually shoot, the early shooting may only be a person or a person, but in the later stage, the person or object is decorated according to our own creativity, which is more like a kind of post-production that completely expresses our own photographic creation ideas. Therefore, post-production is also a kind of photographic creation.

It's a must! Post-production is too important for photography. My post-production process is generally as follows.

The first is the processing of the RAW format. The main software is ACR or Capture One. This stage is to set the tone and bring out the colors, details, and layers that are hidden within the RAW format.

Photography is equivalent to an art, and art originates from life but is higher than life. So in many cases, photographic creation is equal to pre-shooting and post-processing.

The pre-shoot is more important than the post-shoot, because the pre-shoot is good, and the post-production only needs to adjust the color. It's like an ugly girl who wears makeup and disappears, but she is as ugly as she removes her makeup.

How to adjust is related to the weight in the early stage and a little light in the later stage.

From the perspective of photographic art, the early stage of photography is more important;

If you look at it from the general appreciation, it is often possible to turn decay into magic in the later stage, and it is slightly more focused in the later stage.

1.Because the reason why it is called photography is to focus on the technique and cultivation of shooting, if it completely relies on post-computer processing, it will become computer image processing art, and lose the charm of photography itself;

2.Of course, with the current post-production means, it is completely possible to confuse the real with the fake, so that you can't distinguish the authenticity of the photography;

3.Photography is an art that comprehensively controls various elements such as light, timing, environment, angle, composition, photographic equipment, etc., and photography has its own charm, which cannot be replaced by any post-production master.

4.In real photographic works, only moderate modifications are allowed on very limited elements such as color light and shade, rotation and cropping, and more emphasis is placed on the skills of photography in the early stage.

In the early stage, he mainly mastered structural shooting such as lighting and composition.

The later period is mainly the beautification of the original **.

This is relatively speaking, if the photographer is gone, can you draw a ** by yourself in the later stage? Impossible, right?

If the photographer's ** is not good-looking, and it is not processed in the later stage, it is really better not to see it, and it is shocking to see it.

A photographer with average skills and a retoucher with average skills, the basic works can be accepted by ordinary people. That's just as important.

A photographer whose skills are not very good, but at least he can shoot **, plus a very powerful retoucher, can also come out very powerful**.

A very skilled photographer shoots the ** is almost perfect, the composition and color are basically impeccable, but the model has a pimple on the face, and if it is not eliminated, it will affect the senses, so at this time, as long as there is a person who can repair the image, it is enough, and it does not need to be very powerful.

Therefore, there is no way to define whether the photographer is important or post-processing.

From the perspective of the photo studio, a great photographer saves money than a powerful photographer, because it takes a lot of time to repair a statue, and it is really fast to take pictures.

Anyone who has done post-processing knows that it takes time and pain to make up for the mistakes of the photographer in the early stage.

There are two types of post-photography:

1. It is to correct the vision of the human eye - it is taken by the photographic equipment, and there is a difference between the scene that the equipment "sees" and the scene that the human eye sees. For example, when the human eye focuses on the text on the screen, other places are in a blurred state, and even if the camera only uses the most accurate point focusing method, the recorded ** still has too many clear places, so the focus of ** is more prominent through post-processing. Other aspects such as color tone, color temperature, etc., are also very different from what the camera "sees" and what the human eye sees, so the post-correction makes it more in line with human vision.

This kind of post-production is actually to make ** more realistic, not distorted.

2. Carry out a certain artistic sublimation. For example, through screenshots, it makes ** have more beautiful communication; Carry out unconventional color processing, creative stitching, etc. This kind of ** processing will give people a real feeling in most cases, and when it is not handled well, it will appear distorted.

Sometimes I just want it to be more perfect, to beautify it.

Does photography need to be real? The answer to the highest vote at the moment is no, which cannot be agreed. The limit of this point of view is that the later stage is good, the early stage of taking pictures is just to make the later stage more convenient, and the later stage is more important than the early stage (yes, this is the status quo of some domestic photography circles being crooked, a large number of people have this view and it has been passed down from generation to generation).

Therefore, as long as the post-production technology is good enough and convenient enough, the profession of photography can be dispensed without. How is this possible? The essence of photography is truth, if it is art, photography is not needed, but the subject matter of photography itself for the purpose of documentary is needed.

For example, photojournalism, sports photography, recording the real situation of some products, medical shooting. Evaluations say that videography is an extension of artistic use, and that's right. The earliest prototype of the camera is the imaging camera obsca in the 16th century, and the first ** "The Boy with the Horse" is also for the remake of the original painting, but only by restoring the original painting can there be photographic value.

The purpose of the invention and popularity of the camera was to record reality, and it is currently the largest use of the camera. The artistic function is only a derivation. That's the essence of photography.

If post-production is the core of photography, then it is no different from painting and CG production, photography is just a sketch.

Thinking about it this way, it is clear that if the ** that has not been post-produced is real, then all cameras (including) mobile phones should have the same imaging style. Think about it, isn't that the case. This ** was also later by your phone.

And, I've been in contact with all the people who say that the post-production is not important and unreal, and they don't know how to take pictures, yes? It's a bit rude, but when you really put the most effort into photography, you won't come to that conclusion. In addition, this ** is really not good, just because you see this scenery, and then what is good to take a picture, and the horizontal line of the scenery is not a big taboo.

If you take a shot with a mobile phone and a camera, you shoot with different focal lengths, you shoot with different brands, and even different people look at it, and even if the same person stands in different positions, the scenes and colors you see are different.

Pre- and post-production.

Let's start with a simple and crude conclusion - it's all important! The early stage and the later stage are complementary to each other, in the words of a famous saying - the early stage is to compose, the later stage is to perform, both are indispensable, good composition + good performance can be a good song.

1.The early stage is to compose music.

In the early stage, it is like cooking to buy vegetables, you need to buy high-quality ingredients, otherwise it will be difficult to make delicious meals. When we shoot, we should also try to ensure that the early shooting is perfect, otherwise it will bring a lot of trouble to the later stage, and it may even be that the waste film is filmed, and it cannot be saved in the later stage, such as overexposure and dead whiteness.

The picture above is a relatively high-quality original picture).

2.The later stage is playing.

The early stage of the song is too badly written, and the later stage can't be played well, so our later stage is not omnipotent. But it can make our good tunes play very beautifully, which can not only allow us to beautify and express on the premise of authenticity.

The picture above is the finished film after simple post-processing of the high-quality original picture, and it looks good to adjust the picture in a few simple steps).

Good ** standard.

In fact, the standard of good ** is particularly simple - a clear theme, a prominent theme, a concise picture, and a high degree of completion.

The above is my personal opinion, I hope it will be helpful to you.