Ya, PhotoShop Ya - it's evil and addictive.

Over on EP (Editorial Photographer) photojournalist Peter Richardson (his blog) bought to our attention this wonderful story about PhotoShop the wonderful but totally addictive photo editing tool but savage beast for a photographer not to lose his head over.
Once again it't the photojournalists who have the toughest time with it. It is so easy to take the mundane - push the contrast - saturate and presto you have something ---unearthly. Apparently Danish photographer Klavs Bo Christensen lost his noodle over the untamed power of PhotoShop whilst submitting to the Picture of the Year contest. The judges where so befuddled by his renditions of the scenes they asked for this RAW images ( RAW format being the untouched- unprocessed image that is created by the camera instead of a processed image like jpeg) Here's the example of the before and after.

The story is reported here with the translation form the judging at the POY in Denmark. Great story read all about it.





This would never happen with Kodachrome!