This particular rose bush has never had such rich golden roses before. They keep catching my eye as I look out the window.
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A gorgeous sight to see out of your window. If you don't mind I have a thought that often occurs to me. This is gorgeous as is and a true representation of what you see. However, I have this mad desire to flip it horizontally to let my eye move into the flower across the page. But then it's not true to the scene. How do you decide to leave or to change? Just a weird question that often worries me!! Cheers Rob
@jgpittenger No Jane - I didn't mean for you to do that. :) I really was just asking for your ideas on the whole flipping concept. And editing I guess. Should a gorgeous image like this be left alone as a true record of something beautiful or should it be flipped. it's been tricky with our trip - some of the images would be better flipped - but then they're not an image of that place?! Cheers Rob
@robz my take is with something like a flower where one could shoot it from any side if other things weren’t in the way, flipping to make it more reader friendly makes sense. When it is something with relationship to something like the ocean which here is clearly to the West, personally I wouldn’t flip it
@jgpittenger@robz Your exchange raises a bigger question for me. With today's sophisticated processing, enhancing, manipulating, refining tools, when does a photograph stop being a photograph and become else?
@ososki There are people who say that they use their editing to hopefully let the viewer feel what they felt when they were there. I agree…to a certain point…but I still want the photo feel true to me
@ososki@jgpittenger Thank you to both of you for your replies. Jane, I really like your idea re context of the item or scene. That makes so much sense and actually answers the problem for me. Thanks again. Cheers Rob
