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The way I see it, there’s three levels of post processing:
1) SOOC. Get it right in camera and ship it. LR is AT MOST doing a default RAW conversion.
2) Deferred in-camera edits. Perhaps you fix white balance or exposure, or give the image a slight straightening. Things you could have done in-camera, but didn’t (or failed to(.
3) You’re editing for content. Color toning, cloning, adding vignettes or grain, stacking, “clarity”, or anything beyond what you could reasonably get out of camera.
If you’re editing for content, you’ve moved beyond photography and into composite art. And that’s great; much of what we see is heavily edited.
Bokeh manipulation is just a better way to do what we’ve been doing for years with masks and Photoshop. I don’t see a reason to complain about having a nice bokeh tool, any more than I’d complain about the Clarity slider or LR presets.
If the end result of this feature is that I can use a mirror lens to get results like a 600/4, I’ll laugh all the way to the bank instead of crying all the way to the chiropractor!
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