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What is the right amount of manipulating forging post processing a photograph? Is there “enough”? Too much? In this epsiode I try to get into these questions – but don’t expect an answer. 
I start with a snap shot with a bad composition. A crop, a bit of curves and sharpening and the snap shot turned into a better snap shot.
The image to the right is not made with GIMP – it’s shot with a “Subjektiv” and had only it’s curve tweaked a bit. The Subjektiv is a lens with exchangable optics. I used an acrylic lens, like in the Holga. There is also a glas lens which even can be stopped down with an aperture, a pinhole and a zone plate. So this image is a “real” photography – would there be a difference if I had shot it with a good lens and made it look like this in GIMP?
I was inspired to this topic by these two discussions in the forum. And I have started a third about the question I posted here. Got an opinion? Join us there or post your comments here in the show blog.
There will probably no show next week. 
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where is the XCF file?
Here’s a TOC
http://meetthegimp.org/episode-098-how-much-gimp/
Episode 098: How much GIMP?
00:18 Welcome
01:18 A portrait of a dog – how it came to be
03:00 Basic processing
03:15 – Cropping to a fixed aspect ratio
04:50 – Curves adjustment
05:35 – Sharpening
06:09 Was it worth it? Yes
07:43 Subjektiv lens
09:26 Subjektiv tulips
10:10 Curves adjustment
12:00 A question of philosophy
14:58 The End
Thanks
@joyce: I thought nobody would be interested in the shots as I made just small adjustments. I’ll upload them this afternoon.
@Kevin: Thank you very much! I had to edit in a short time and so couldn’t make a TOC.
Thank you for including the Wikipedia (http://www.wikipedia.org/) links : ) It is nice to seem someone taking the time to use the Internet to a greater extent.
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