To Tweak or Not To Tweak?

I thought it would be a good idea to show before and after pictures of photos you have edited, just to give an idea of the differences that can be made by minor adjustments, edits and cropping.
I tend to only save the edited versions but found a few.

I dare you to show photos that you have altered!

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Which is which Tessa ?

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The first are before.

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Just out of interest, do you consider the edited ones to be superior?

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As you can see the image is cropped and spots on petals removed, background is darker too.

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It's not, it just makes a better picture artistically. If I was to paint it I probably would do the same.
It's not a photo as such but a picture. I didn't need a fancy camera, just a point and shoot, I didn't need to learn techniques, it was an instant image which I could enhance when I had time.
Years ago you had to wait for photos to come back from processing and get very disappointed if the were rubbish. Now you don't have to, you can turn even rubbish photos into acceptable images. I think it's more Art than photography skill these days, Barry.

If you really wanted to capture an image that you would never see again and took a really bad photo, then you could possibly edit it to make it clearer and as you remembered it wouldn't you do it?

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How did you remove the spots Tessa?

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On my laptop you can edit spots out, it's just a Windows thing I think. You can change lighting, crop etc. or add a simple effect. It's not anything I downloaded.

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Before


After

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Lovely Gasman, it looks misty.