While working with Adobe Lightroom, you can hear or read a lot of discussions about unreal scenes that processed pictures show and that they aren’t showing reality anymore. You, as a viewer, can end up being disappointed while visiting places that amazed you earlier with someone’s photographs. I decided to share some editions of Lightroom with everyone (those interested in photography – so they can learn how to express themselves with the use of Lightroom and photography mediums, and those not knowing much about the photo editing process to realize how it looks before and after). 

Realistic photography is just one kind of photography we can take.

We believe in the truth, which we can see in old photographs, but those who have worked with traditional techniques know that both kinds of photography – traditional and digital—are the same world when we speak about processing pictures. The old, traditional photographs could also be merged from a few pictures or colorized in a darkroom, just like the digital pieces in the Lightroom. You can also make them darker or lighter, add something to the picture, or hide something on it.

Some think that the only real and true photography is the one without any process after being taken by a camera. But processing pictures in Lightroom isn’t lying to the viewer; it is a digital version of old physical techniques used by photographers in the darkroom to develop photographic film and create some pieces on photographic paper. They didn’t have the option to jump over this process like we have now. The picture taken by a camera and not processed in Lightroom is not more realistic than the one being developed. With the use of a tool like Lightroom, photographers interfere in the way the camera has captured the image, knowing that photographic gear changes the picture, and it is never what we see with our eyes. So, for example, they can fix angles and make them look more the way we see them with our eyes. But it is good to realize that even our eyes don’t see everything, they see just a part of the whole world.

Photographers work through years of their work to understand the tools they use, because their understanding of lenses, filters, different bodies, and other photography gear influences the final result of their work. So, in the end, it is the photographer choosing what kind of photography they will choose to express themselves and share with the world their ‘point of view’.