Further to my piece about the U3A Photo Forum on 23rd January, there are some interesting observations on-post processing from landscape photographer G B Smith in Black+White Photography No. 286.
It’s [AI] facilitated a debate around what is an acceptable representation of an image: what is a photograph and what isn’t?
There’s a line in there somewhere. If you look at an image and what you’ve done in post-processing, it has to be recognisable. You can take things out that might distract, and you can clean up the image, maybe take out a bollard or whatever. But if you put things in and it doesn’t represent what you saw, you’re creating new subjects. That is across the line for me
I don’t do a lot of messing around in post-processing. I clean the mage up and take away any obvious distractions, but that’s the line I draw. It’s a big conversation.
Smith’s book Pathways is published by G Editions LLC.