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Anonymous
I was just having this discussion with some friends of mine the other day. I think the final conclusion was, unless it's something that you feasibly couldn't have done in a darkroom, or with tools commonly available, edit away. Adjusting color, contrast, dodging, burning, and saturation are all things that, with the proper amount of knowledge and equipment, are done all the time in darkrooms. Even solarization is a darkroom technique. Nine times out of ten, even National Geographic photogs crop and rotate. If the results are like what you get in>>37401then yeah, that might be taking it a little far. But as far a being a purist and only taking photos that your camera can make, you are selling your eye short and not being true to your intent, which was to capture as realistically as possible what your eyes saw. To limit yourself to what your equipment can produce is disingenuous as you are not really limited by the technology, only what of that technology you can afford.
Long story short, edit away. So long as you are being true to your eye and to the image.
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