lighting confessions

This is the original of the background photo, shot by Myra Lambino-Ramos, Crystal Cave in Sequoia Park. i lit it up a little. oops, inverted it a little too.  confession time. forgive me. i sometimes light up some of the photos and videos here, photojournalists say it’s okay to light up or crop a photo as long as your tweaking doesn’t change the content but makes the visual easier to see…but you can’t invert them, in photojourn, that is (that probably also applies to nature photography i guess, unless you did your shot hanging upside down by a rig); you can’t brush or erase, etc., either, in photojourn (as well as in nature photography), it changes the reality you’re trying to document and bring to the viewers. Why do i invert some of the photos? it changes the “feel” or “mood” or “emotional content” (if you can find emotional content in stillife or landscape). The stalactites look like daggers in the original ; inverted, they look like growing stone plants. (i think). you also can’t alter a work without permission of the creator, under the Intellectual Property Code. But the photographer is my loving and lovable sister, i thought she would forgive me when i tweak just a teeny-weeny tiny bit to suit the background of the blog…. :), and i’ve made confessions… (leave enough alone kasi!)