Why I STOPPED Doing This In My Landscape Photography! 

Interesting, Thank-you!

Good video and well worth the time. Thank you. I have no disagreement with the idea that a person should be doing what works for them and post-processing for composition as well as other concerns can make a huge difference - and be a wonderful thing. I think that where the disagreement can lie is philosophical. To give a little context - I'm rather old and I'm not a pro by any stretch of the imagination but I've gone from film box cameras to film DSLRs to very digital and some very demanding non-mainstream photography and that gives me a perspective which may or may not be of value to others. When you have a film camera with a pretty limited amount of film and not a lot of money with which to get things processed (and cannot access a darkroom) you have to develop at least some sense of composition and have it hard-wired into your brain that what you shoot is what you get. Post-processing was not an option. So some of us have the concept of not doing much of anything in post-processing. Some simply don't like post-processing. That includes my daughter who actually got formal training and then dumped the idea of photo-processing because she doesn't like doing it - and I'm not all that far off from her - and dumped one form of photography because I didn't like the technical aspect of image acquisition and of processing. Now for the more philosophical part? I divide those who photograph into three major (note necessarily fully exclusive) camps: 1. Those who want to produce an image showing what they WANTED to see (or to show). This individual tends to really embraces processing the images to create a sense of what the photographer wanted to see, not what they actually saw. I tend to think of this as more "artsy" (not a perjorative). 2. Those who want to produce an image showing what they DID see. This approach may include a modest amount of processing of the image and I think most are willing to do at least a little cropping for composition. 3. Those who want to snap an image and just aren't going to do any processing if the camera doesn't do it automatically. A lot of this is now done with smartphone cameras which actually will do a surprisingly good job of touching up an image. I think most pros are in the first category and I'm betting that generally sells best. I think National Geographic requires the #2 approach and is the category I think I mostly want to be in. Most people are in #3 and some will sneer at them - but it is their camera and the images are what they want so I think it's a great approach. My wife is definitely #3 and if she would learn some compositional skills she'd make images I'd like a whole lot more. But she is happy with what she gets with her smartphone camera - and that means they are good photos whether I like 'em or not. Well, just an oldsters perspective. Keep making these videos and I'll keep watching them! Valuable perspectives and information.