7 Workflow Overview
Most creative photographs are departures from reality and it seems to take a higher order of craft to make this departure than to simulate reality.
—ANSEL ADAMS
The workflow I describe here is designed to benefit creative photographers in making expressive photographs. As such, I prioritize accomplishing your expressive goal and producing the highest quality results possible, rather than efficiency and minimizing processing time. Indeed, this workflow may be ill suited for applications that require processing a large quantity of images in a short amount of time, or for applications where the resulting images are only required to meet some baseline criteria to make them usable for such purposes as publication, reportage, slideshows, ...
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