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How to Get the Creative Magic into Your Photography
The magic of creativity should always be in the foreground of your photographic work.
Since the invention and development of the digital camera, photographers have been faced with the ever increasing offer of processes that are controlled by software applications.
Apps, those little bits and pieces that we can use to, apparently, make everything easier for ourselves.
You can set your expensive camera on automatic, and the only thing you have to do is point it objects that interest you, press the button, and check the results.
If you don’t like it, you take it into a software programme where you can post-process the image to get the effects you want.
Is the end result, in this scenario, really what you wanted? Or did you settle for a shot that was nice enough?
Quite a few professional photographers do this — they use automatic settings. At weddings, portraits, for their headshots, product photography and so on, professional photographers use either aperture settings, or they put the camera on full auto, just to get through the day.
Where’s the creativity in that?
