Steven L. Taylor is a Professor of Political Science and a College of Arts and Sciences Dean. His main areas of expertise include parties, elections, and the institutional design of democracies. His most recent book is the co-authored A Different Democracy: American Government in a 31-Country Perspective. He earned his Ph.D. from the University of Texas and his BA from the University of California, Irvine. He has been blogging since 2003 (originally at the now defunct Poliblog).
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And I would say that all of my photos are at least lightly edited and never wholly unedited–although I think of it more as processing than editing, per se. Typically I am doing some cropping, and some manipulation of blacks, whites, and contrasts. I am the wrong computer to check to see how much I did to this shot.
@Steven L. Taylor:
A lot of the stuff I shoot for lawyers requires zero editing (except cropping), so I’ve gotten out of the habit – except band shoots, because of the stage lighting. But none of your tonal sunset shots look over processed to me (which is a compliment, honest!)
Wow.
Gorgeous
Question: what photo editing software do you use?
Loves me a sunrise shot! Great!!
@MarkedMan: I shoot in RAW format and then process the shots in Adobe Lightroom.
@Flat Earth Luddite: Graicas (but it is sunset).
Did you ever try GIMP?
@MarkedMan: I did a long time ago.
@Steven L. Taylor:
Mea culpa. Where I’m at, those are usually a.m. shots. Still nice pop (especially if that’s unedited)
My biggest problem isn’t editing, it’s cataloging.
@Flat Earth Luddite: I get some great sunsets here.
And I would say that all of my photos are at least lightly edited and never wholly unedited–although I think of it more as processing than editing, per se. Typically I am doing some cropping, and some manipulation of blacks, whites, and contrasts. I am the wrong computer to check to see how much I did to this shot.
@Steven L. Taylor:
A lot of the stuff I shoot for lawyers requires zero editing (except cropping), so I’ve gotten out of the habit – except band shoots, because of the stage lighting. But none of your tonal sunset shots look over processed to me (which is a compliment, honest!)
@Flat Earth Luddite: I absolutely take that as a compliment! I avoid over-processsing and would be alarmed if the shots looked heavily manipulated.