More Fix It Fun

We're fixin' photos over at I ♥ Faces again this Friday.  Have I mentioned how much I love this?  Yeah, only about 50 times :)

Here's the awesome before shot:

 

Here's my fix:

It didn't need much, that's for sure!  I did everything in Lightroom 2 - crop, straighten, white balance, brighten.  Done.

I had a conversation with "my" camera guy the other day.  He likes to show me his album of recent shots - he's good.  Really good.  Every now and then he mentions something he'd do differently, and I say something like "You could tweak that in processing".  He rolls his eyes and clicks his tongue at me.  "No processing for me.  Photography isn't about the computer."

I feel a bit like I've been scolded.

There are the purists, to be sure ("get it right the first time, and NO processing") - they often even express a feeling that we're somehow "cheating" by messing with images the way we do these days.  I wonder...why do they shoot digital then?  Why not stick with film?

 I don't see the difference between doing the magic in the dark room (film days) versus doing it on the computer now.  

What do you think?