“Pam, you get a different feel from Ansel Adams’ stuff compared to those “extreme Photoshop” images because some people are not familiar with restraint, or, they are trying to create a graphic illustration more than they are trying to adjust an image so that it reflects the artist’s impression of the scene. Ansel Adams would push his negatives and prints to fulfill a vision of what he saw and felt, not to create something that wasn’t there at all.”

(I had shared with Carl how extreme Photoshop treatment was eroding my trust level with some photography. He had mentioned Ansel Adams, so I said that Ansel Adams’ work left a very different impression on me. This was his answer, which hits the nail on the head.)