Quote Originally Posted by FadderUri
Seems to me that all of the post work detracts what the image should be, which is an accurate representation of what's really there.
No, I'm not gonna get into it with you or anyone elase over this often dissused topic, because our opinions about this are mostly (if not entirely) based on the way we learned, not only about photography, but about creating art in general.

What I will say, with all due respect, is that your quote above is missing two extremely important words:

"Seems to me that all of the post work detracts (from) what I think the image should be, which is an accurate representation of what's really there..."

That's the key to this topic. What each of us believes a photograph is suppose to represent.

To me there is NO direct connection between my photos and "reality". If the purpose, or more accurately, the LIMITATIONS of my shooting were be an "accurate representation of what's really there", I doubt I would be a photographer at all...

Oh, and BTW, do I thnk ALL images should be photoshopped? Of course not. But it has nothing to do with reality... ;)