just when you thought i can't get worse

no one is perfect shooting raw. that's the point. easily 40% of the photography classes I took in school (late 2000s) were editing, whether that was digitally in photoshop or lightroom, or manually in the darkroom for film. and I've taught myself more along the way than I ever learned in class. editing has always been a part of photography and it's a very important artistic skill to hone. one could even argue that adjusting your exposure and fstop is a form of editing. the whole point of photography is manipulating light and color within a scene and not all of that is always possible in the moment, especially with something like concert photography.

but like how dare you call yourself an artist and utilize AI for your art like that's actually scummy. how lazy of a piece of trash do you have to be. like the purpose of photography is literally to preserve a moment as it is in reality, with our own artistic interpretation of said moment.