Well, since im not a hobby photo guy, I just got a cybershot. I usually set my pics to 5 mb and snap away. Out of a usual session of 100+ pics i get about 5-10 that I like. Then its just a process of picking the one I really like. Once I get that down I open up my photo editor. Its not all that powerful, but it gets the job done for the most part. At that point I do the whole brightness/contrast/gama thing. Sharpen up where i think its needed, soften a bit (some surrounding). All in all, i don't go too crazy (unless I'm feeling creative), and as far as photoshopping, I don't feel guilty cause lets face it, what in mass media isn't photoshopped?
Let me do a lil something for ya...Below is the source pic I used.
You'll notice right off that I cropped it a bit, and enchanced the blues. Being that it was winter time I kinda felt it was "in the spirit". Also, brought out a little orange/red in the brush...it was a bit too dead for me in real life. But yeah, most of my work is done in P/S (or in my case "PhotoMagix"..........nowhere near as good.....)
