Dogs In Natural Light
Dogs and all animals are perfect beings. Nature created them that way, and there
is never any reason for us to believe we can, or should, improve upon them.
Digital imaging software enables those who are lazy, impatient or who don't have an artistic eye to create art they fraudulently call their 'photography', but what they create is not true photography at all. It is simply 'graphic art' created on a computer using a photograph. Graphic art is not the same as true, traditional photography.
Natural (traditional) photography can be accomplished with the use of digital camera equipment as long as the camera is set to photograph the scene exactly as it appears in nature. Most people don't want to take the time to learn and use the manual camera settings and would rather have the camera take the picture for them instead. Later, whatever image didn't 'develop' well is corrected by computer and then falsely presented as photographs, when it fact, it is now computer generated art.
This type of manipulation is fine for the hobbyist, but no one calling themselves a professional nature photographer should ever resort to this kind of manipulation
unless they are intentionally creating fantasy images and stating such.
My Rule of Thumb: If it doesn't look in Nature the way one has printed or presented it, the image is not a photograph.
My photographic images are real. What you see is exactly what my naked eye saw when I clicked the camera shutter. The dogs, lighting, natural surroundings, and all other subjects in my photographs are shown as they naturally appeared.
No enhancement is ever done to my images before, during or after the shot.
I photograph dogs as they are, in natural environments and in natural light conditions. I show them to you as I see them and as God made them to be seen and loved.
Dogs are perfect. If one is unable to get great pictures of them naturally, they need to learn patience and technique, not PhotoShop. To do this, they are encouraged to read my eBook: How To Photograph Dogs in Natural Light
For more information on the difference between computer generated "photographs" and real ones, see my article:
