Alfred Stieglitz Quotes

My belief is that every single major magazine cover is retouched. I don't know how they couldn't be.

My style is in the 21st century. If you look at the process, it goes from photography through Photoshop, where certain features are heightened, elements of the photo are diminished. There is no sense of truth when you're looking at the painting or the photo or that moment when the photo was first taken.

Any images that I've had retouched, I look at them, and I think, 'Oh I actually don't want that.' That's why I don't share them on Instagram.

I used to touch up my pictures on the computer and send them to friends. I would change colours, the design, and stuff like that.

The retouching is excessive. I do not look like that and more importantly, I don't desire to look like that.

Photography has always been capable of manipulation.

Even the photographs of Henri Cartier-Bresson, with all due respect to him, are notoriously burned and dodged.

I've always been into taking my photos, cropping them square, putting them through a filter in Photoshop.

Nothing wrong with retouching - nothing new about retouching.

I'm not a photographer, so I need all the help I can get when it comes to make a picture look cool.

My pictures are airbrushed.

When I started out, it was considered very wrong to change an image. There were scandals if someone inserted a sky into a war picture or something. Now it's all about that.

Dodging and burning are steps to take care of mistakes God made in establishing tonal relationships.

Some photographers work on the same image for hours and hours and then use the first picture that they took.

No photographer is as good as the simplest camera.

Somehow Photoshop and the ease with which one can produce an image has degraded the quality of photography in general.

I love retouching images on Photoshop.

Sometimes, if I see a picture and I can make it a bit better, then I will, like everyone else does. I've been Photoshopped in every picture since I started modelling.

When I was in the 12th standard itself, I decided to join the Adyar Film Institute and study photography. I specifically chose photography because I see photography as an applied science. There is an artistic element also in it. If you perfect your scientific element, you can attain certain quality.

I touch up photos so people look as good in their photographs as they did in real life.

Retouching is an incredible tool but can also create unrealistic expectations for women who don't understand that an image is not how the subject really looks. Even the subjects themselves can't live up to their retouched images.

Photoshop is just like makeup. When it’s done well it looks great, and when it’s overdone you look like a crazy asshole.

We can now manipulate images to such an extrodinary extent that there's no lie you cannot tell.

There is 3 key things for good photography: the camera,lighting and... Photoshop

Today there is too much retouching, and I don't like it, except on me.