To be frank, I want to be the first to upload the pictures.
It’s a habit. Ask any of my friends. I race to have my set of photos uploaded to Facebook as soon as I could, which means it must be sooner than any of them. A few years back, when I had more time and inspiration, I captioned each one. Plus the album description was a veritable, painfully detailed blog post of what transpired during that occasion.
Why do I do that?
Mostly because I am on a high. I feel spirited, full of those good vibes from such a good time. And all of that must be recorded, while I still remember the details. A number of my friends said my verve shows in the way I wrote the description and captions. That was the lovable part. The hate-able part? I do not “filter” any of the pictures.
Yes, I do not Photoshop any picture I upload.
Call me strange but I believe in the natural and the actual moment that was frozen in that image. No touch-ups, no alterations, no cropping. Just how we—or they—really were when the picture was taken. Guess that is why a number of friends filter the photos I post. Not that I mean for any of those pictures to be a source of ridicule for any of them. Tell me that you’d rather a particular photo taken down and I will. No need to go ballistic on me.
But I’d rather that all of my photos were with real friends, not the ones that were Photoshopped.
like reading on trains 
I photoshop my pics mainly because i don’t have a fancy DSLR camera and rely on pocket or smartphone cameras all the time, but the editings are limites to brightness, contrast and saturation.
Perhaps you also see it as a ‘violation’? Hehe
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Violation? Maybe.
Or perhaps something like: I remember her having “okay” skin–but not smooth as porcelain and white as snow skin?!
Less confusion for my memory bank.
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Without photoshop, my pictures would be boring. The whole idea of my photographic activity is to make things more beautiful. I enhance my photos, instead of drawing or painting as I did before. To me photo-editing is great fun.
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To each his own, I say.
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Or to really beat the rush to post, you could always buy a Mobi card – cheapest one is around $75.
I not a big fan of photoshopping my pictures either – maybe a minor tweak of of brightness, but that’s it.
Enjoyed your post 🙂
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I would love to try that but no such thing here.
Thanks though.
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I’m guilty of adjusting the brightness or contrast of photos that I post. But just like you, I usually want to post “party” photos right away. It kind of validates that I spent my time on something worthwhile. 🙂
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To be clear, I’m not telling to stop using Photoshop to enhance photos. That’s their thing.
And yes–uploading the pictures is proof that you were somewhere with some people.
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