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24Peter wrote:
Nice shot Ron! I really like the lighting and your talented subject.
Question for Ron/ the group: would it be totally verboten to tweak a little free transform to make the limbs/body position more symmetrical? My guess is a fraction of a second either way would have provided that symmetry anyway. I don't do this kind of work so don't know what's acceptable. Just curious...
Peter,
I get what Steve said in response to your question, and I'm pretty much 99% in agreement with him. In shooting dancers, I've actually been asked, "Can you turn her foot in a little bit?" It's only happened a couple of times, but it happens. I don't touch those. But on rare occasion, I've done some minor adjustments. I once had an entire group of dancers doing a split leap jump and one dancer had a leg down about 45 degrees. If I can, I'll just crop out that dancer but in this case, she was in the middle. So I adjusted her leg so it was more with the group.
Now... I don't want to start a debate on the ethics of doing that. It was a creative choice that I did one time, and I stand behind that choice. Another person will say that you should never ever ever do that, and that's fine by me. My first 15 years or more of photography was as a PJ shooter for newspapers, so I was never allowed to change anything. Maybe now I like the creative freedom I can sometimes express through my editing? But I rarely do that, really only once or twice, and when you consider how much dancing I shoot, that may give it some perspective.
My point is, I think, that in today's world, the shot we get out of the camera is just the beginning of the art that we create. Some people don't even do any editing at all, others will just tweak the color/exposure and maybe sharpen a bit. And others take it so much further that it becomes art, just take a look at the most popular (and amazing) pictures on 500px. Look at what Lisa does with what she starts with, and how they end up with when they're done. I have a shot from that DePaul cheerleading shoot that has a cheerleader upside down, and looking like she's walking briskly. I want to create a scene where the world is upside down and she's walking in it. But I think part of the world will also be right-side up, and I may have people in the right-side up world reacting to her upside down. I haven't worked out the concept yet, but when I do, I'm going to shoot it and create it. Should be fun! 
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