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Photography Tutorial · 2024-03-31

How to Strengthen Realism in Post: 'Real' vs 'Real Feel' in Photography

The real world is three-dimensional, continuous in time, and unframed — while a photograph is two-dimensional, frozen, and framed.

And in the real world we have rich sensations of taste, touch, and hearing; our brains automatically focus on subjects that draw us in. A photograph can offer none of these.

So compared with what we feel directly in reality, our perception of a photograph is inevitably somewhat "distorted."

In today's tutorial, we'll briefly discuss "real" versus "real feel" in photography, and teach you a few simple post-processing tricks that quickly boost a photo's sense of realism.

How to Strengthen Realism in Post: 'Real' vs 'Real Feel' in Photography

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