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From: "David Strike" <[log in to unmask]>
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Sent: Friday, March 08, 2002 2:29 AM
Subject: [SCUBA-SE] Enhancing pics?


> Having seen, for example, some of Christians U/W pics - as well as those
> taken by folks like, Viv, Bjorn, John Nitrox, Crusty, et al - I have some
> hesitancy about the validity of enhancing some of the digital pics that
I've
> taken over the past few weeks. (Even assuming that I can master how to do
> it!) :-)
>
The pictures are yours.  What you do with them is up to you.  They are most
likely not publication quality and most likely no amount of editing you
could do would make them so. So, cut the head off a cuttlefish and paste it
on a weedy seadragon and claim a new species.  ;-)  In short, adjust them so
that they fit your memories of the dive and not some artificial standard to
which amateur and pro photogs are trying tohold you.

CH