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mustafa604 wrote:
I download trial for lightroom, Capture one, Dxo Optics and leaning more towards the Dxo optics in terms of purchasing one. My question basically is how does one know to stop editing and the photo is finished? No matter what i do im never happy with the results of my editing.
Hate to say this, but there's no way to know. (Good call on DXO - I'm using it more and more.) Somewhere in the artist's mind is a great portal to perfection. What most of us don't see is the sign over it: "Here lies madness." I have a potter friend (whose work I really admire) who decided one day that his stuff wasn't good enough, so systematically destroyed everything he had. Whoa!!
For me, it depends on my audience, my perseverance, my current skill level, and just how important the image is to me, not to anyone else. I've got some remarkable pix that I've come back to over several years as I felt I just didn't get it right. On the other hand, the things that help me are: (1) perfection is a process, not a goal, (2) step back, walk away, leave it alone for awhile, (3) consider/remember my original vision, sense, feel, smell, etc., when I took the photo. This can really help, (4) if it's a critically important work that I'll hang in a juried show, I always get a second opinion, not from a photographer, just someone with good taste.
The last and final choice is: I just get tired of the d*** thing, and it's - as they say in horseshoes and hand grenades - good enough
Robert
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