Why Photoshop is Ruining Landscape Photography

04 Apr 2013 • digital-photography-school.com

Photography has always been a craft. Ansel Adams had no need to add clouds or alter tree shapes because his images were honest and beautiful. There is nothing wrong with painting new images with Photoshop, just don’t call it photography.

It is something entirely different when a photographer wants to be an artist.  An artist creates images from their imagination and that is a wonderful thing. Just leave photography to record what the camera sees not what the photographer wishes it had seen.

I hadn't really considered the distinction so clearly before now.  Art vs craft indeed.