>>2688477>what is wrong with photographyFuck you, clown.
A balanced photo (as in one not skewed to any particularly high key, low key or high contrast aesthetic) looks best when it fully exploits the tonal range of the display medium.
Hate to break it to you, but people look at photos on screens, and screens crush blacks.
If you want to properly articulate texture and tone into the deep shadows of an image, you need to lift them to the point where the tonal separation is visible, in all viewing conditions on every low gamut LCD out there.
And that means lifting them off the toe of the curve.
>deal with it homo