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A place to politely discuss the tools, technique and culture of photography.

This is not a good place to simply share cool photos/videos or promote your own work and projects, but rather a place to discuss photography as an art and post things that would be of interest to other photographers.

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I spend way too much time processing the perfect picture... (alien.top)

submitted 1 year ago by komanaa@alien.top to c/photography@viewfinder.pro

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I do architecture photography. The worse part is that I know the client probably won't notice the difference. How do you know when enough is enough?

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[–] AnonymousBromosapien@alien.top 1 points 1 year ago

Set a time limit for yourself.

E.g. "I will only work on this shot for 10 minutes, and then I will not even look at it for at least an hour".

When you come back to it in an hour youll either immediately know what areas could use a little more touch or you will be happy with it. If you do feel it needs a little more work, give yourself a 5 minute time limit for the touch ups... then dont look at it for another hour.

This method of constantly limiting your time and forcing yourself to wait and to do anything with the edits will condition you to feel the full weight of the amount of time wasted on needless fine tune editing, and force you to accept/hone your editing technique in the first 10 minute session for no other reason than the desire to not want to wait an hour to come back to it later.

I.e. Its much more inconvenient to have to wait an hour to come back to finish something up than it is to sit there and lose an hour working on one shot. Youll eventually get tired of the inconvenience and learn to accept your edits for what you can produce in a 10 minute or less period of time.