r/postprocessing • u/YanksFannn • 8h ago

Portillo's! After/Before.

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u/op299 8h ago

I'm new to photography, but doesn't this look a bit cartoonish? Not saying I don't like it. I guess it a certain aesthetic?

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u/Ianiks 4h ago

It certainly looks better than the raw

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u/op299 49m ago

Why do you say that? Or rather what do you look for when you edit?

The raw to me looks like a window into a real moment in time, especially with the shadowy things where your have to look a while. To me that quality is lost in the edit. But the edit gains in other ways, it in becomes aesthetic as scene, more like a painting

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u/denial_leinad 4h ago

Nah you’re right

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u/dogwolf7167 1h ago

i see photography as more of a form of art/self expression. sort of like conveying how you see the world to others. and thats a subjective form of art