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Photos, Edited, Cropped, AI, natural, or what? Post 304

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You can enhance your travel photos by cropping. Remove litter. Objects obstructing your view.  A lot of fuss was made over the edited photos of the Princess of Wales, Kate (nee Middleton). Was the PR company to blame for sending them out. Surely PR is about prucing the best possible pictures. If they are misleading, then to clarity words could, and should be added. From now on I shall try to remember to add to my photos the words, natural, unedited photo, cropped photo, or cropped and edited.   The solution is simple. Just like the newspapers have to put advertisement, advertorial or editorial or disclaimers on articles, photos should be accompanies by the words, natural photo, edited photo, or AI photo. Dates are also useful. Dating sites sometimes specify recent photo taken in the last year or the last 3 months. If I employ a photographer to photograph a wedding I epect him to crop out litter or passers by in the distance.  I have also had group photos where one pe...

The Perfect Self-Portrait, Flowers in Colour, converted to black and white, dress 528

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Angela Lansbury with flowers in a vase. Selfie. Copyright.  I took a photo of myself with myself wearing an orange scarf to add colour to a black jacket, plus some colourful flowers in a Ladies rest room. (The Tanglin Club in Singapore. You can find similar flower displays in flower shops, and in the lobbies and rest rooms of large hotels.) Other photo opportunities are flowers delivered for a birthday or anniversary, to you or anybody else.  I needed several shots to get a really good one. I also did a lot of editing, mainly cropping. I cropped out my forearms which appeared large as I reached forward to press my fingertip on the take a photo button. Angela Lansbury with flowers. Selfie Photo edited by Angela Lansbury. Copyright Angela Lansbury. Black & White I needed a black and white photo for an author portrait for the inside of printed book. In an ebook the colours don't matter. But in a printed book, whilst colour on the cover is usually included, colours inside the ...