The incredible photography of Trey Ratcliff

I have goosebumps. Granted it’s cold in here, but still. Goosebumps.

Beautiful Photography!
HDR or unedited Photography it is still a great skill to produce such moving images!!
I think people are a little too hard on any photoshoped image it is just a part of digital Photography and another tool in our belts use them or don’t but don’t give someone S#!7 for using tools available to them!

Good travelers make photos. Good presenters make fine photos. Why not to share nice pictures if you have them (and know how to create them).

I think it depends to what kind of degree of photographic manipulation we’re talking here. HDR is obviously a very extreme form, but I don’t know many photographers these days who don’t use Photoshop (or similar) to post-process their images. In fact, given the increasing predominance of the RAW (“untreated”) file format, it could be argued that post-production is these days essential – a modern equivalent of dark room techniques (which were generally accepted as part of the photo taking process).

Plus you have to remember that even photos snapped on point and shoot and other digital cameras are generally processed – just within the camera itself. The question then becomes: how MUCH image manipulation are we prepared to accept for an image to consider itself a “real” travel shot?