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Alain, once again you hit the nail on the head! Why would I want to limit myself just because I'm using photography instead of painting?! I've never had any instruction in artistic painting, but I've always thought to myself if I was painting this scene, why would I include that distracting element or that bland boring sky? The answer is I wouldn't. If your goal is to create a beautiful image, natural looking or otherwise, why would you limit yourself as to how you go about doing that? As you said in your previous article, if your purpose is to document reality, then o
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