National Geographic Photographers use Photoshop?

Question

Do national geographic photographers use photoshop on there photos or are they raw?

Answer 1

All pro photographers use photoshop, including Nat. Geo. photographers.

All pros, that is, except for Ken Rockwell.



Ken's images go straight from raw on camera to his portfolio.

From there, Ken Rockwell's images go on to win many awards and accolades.

When Ken is not busy creating perfect images, which truly is never, he can be found rescuing lost pets and working in soup kitchens.

Some believe Ken has the ability to travel through time, which would explain how he always captures images at the perfect moment. Much like the global warming theory to some, the science on Ken's time travel remains unsettled. Others believe he has the gift of foresight.

These are matters of no small consequence, for Ken Rockwell could well posses the knowledge to save all mankind.

Answer 2

Everyone touches up. It's just a fact of the industry now- you'll have MASSIVE .Raw files because they're shooting 1600+ Pixels/ Inch at maximum bit depth.



However, once you start taking photos @ that level...you don't need to touch things up as much. Polarized filters, UV screens, Telephoto zooms- those are the main weapons. They know their camera inside and out, be it an old school film camera, or a digital- from knowing how to resize it to counter the digital's effect on the image (you'll find that it makes a trapezoid instead of a square until it gets fixed), to level adjusting.



They don't need to do what fashion industry people do and make it horribly fake (I honestly LOVE that Dove commercial!), and they don't need to put fake elements in. They are paid to go to the places in the world that are hazardous and show people what it's like. By the time they've gotten to NG's level (which far exceeds the fashion photographers, because they're doing the real deal), their portfolio is massive, and you can SEE the difference.

Answer 3

Most professional and advanced amateur photographers shoot in raw mode and post process the images with software like Photoshop. It would astound me if I heard that National Geographic photographers shot jpegs. They probably use Photoshop and some plug-ins, but I can't say for certain. Photoshop is the industry standard, so it's likely.

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Answer 5

you are studing photography right?? ok spend 10-20 years producing quality work, if you are good enough they will call you a Edit: ok collect as many NG images, magazines as you can, study the lighting used for different subjects, look at the colour casts they use, --- then on the net at school everywhere start learning about light - lux, tempurature, casts, exposure etc these guys use colour cast/white balance as a creative tool, when they shoot lions on the safari, late afternoon in say 4600k light they expose at say 5600k to get the golden tones of africa, study the portraits, they find colour and use colour contrasts alot, sometines they use hard side lighting/flash to ratio shots, sometimes they use soft window light........what makes there images great is the lighting and the way they manipulate it - those guys dont need photoshop they are shooters - so if you want to get to NG standard learn photography - making in the camera, photoshop is good to know but not a weapon a NG shooter need alot of, they must be top of the top shooters, when you make it remember us little guys

Answer 6

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Answer 7

I'm assuming they use photoshop or some other editing program; how much depends on the photographer. The photoshoot of scottish islands (hebrides) a few months ago looked sort of overdone (to my amateur eye it looked a little bit 'fake'). Not all the pictures, but some of them.

Answer 8

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Answer 11

I would be surprised if 'darkroom-type' manipulations had never been used, e.g, brightening overall, or brightening just some shadows, but my faith in the magazine would be severely dented if I ever found out that pictures had been manipulated to falsify what had been in front of the camera.

Answer 12

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