Chapter 3. Image Editing Basics
The Golden Gate Bridge as seen through a 10mm fisheye lens, August 2005. A fisheye lens yields an image with an extremely wide field of view and lots of spherical distortion.
Technically, all photography is “image editing.” From the moment you compose a shot, you are editing—selecting a particular window onto your subject, manipulating the sense of depth in that window by choosing a focal length and camera position, emphasizing certain tones and colors through exposure. In other words: though photographs may appear realistic, they are a far cry from a truly accurate representation of reality, and represent one person's ...
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