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i was not making the accusation that your pic was edited.
And if a photographer had any type of photo editing software, than they most likely also take solid base shots to work with.
I know plenty of people who can take decent shots and make them fantastic through PS. It's not perticularly hard to do and to keep them clean. PS is used by pro's for the reason of photo cleanup,- Cropping, Noise removal, Sharpening, etc. not for complete revamp.
though through certain area's of PS you can completely edit the color of the fish or subject and the true nature of the picture taken and still keep a natural look to the pic.
Yeah I realise you weren't pin-pointing my picture as a problem. I'm just saying that regardless of editing it has to be a good photo underneath to achieve good results. You can't just take a P&S, click randomly, open up Photoshop and expect to be the next Ansel Adams. People very much underate the skill and overate the use of Photoshop when they look at a nice photo and get told it's been edited.
I won't (can't?) disclose which photos mine, but I'm sure yourself and a few others know it (I can usually pick out some others photos, for example I can see shots from Greenterra & VLDesign in there), and all that's done to it is a change in Levels, Brightness/Contrast, and Colour Balance. If the base photo wasn't so clear, and I had to get in there with the blur and burn tools, among other things, the result wouldn't have been as nice in my opinion.
Essentially, my point is that regardless of editing you need to have some skills when it comes to using a camera, composition, etc. to get a shot that people like, whether it's edited or not.
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