Photoshop and Photographs

Lots of debate goes around all the time about use of photoshop on digital photo - whether such post production work diminishes the essential characteristics of a “real” photograph or does it in fact enhances the creativity of the image portrayal. The argument is not much different from those that raged across the centuries when radically different styles appeared and gained acceptance.  Here are two that I unashamedly pushed beyond the basics in Photoshop.  I like them.