Fine art photography consists of much more than point and click, and a finished art piece involves as much time and effort in the printing, as it does in the field.

“Digital cameras have opened the field of photography to so many more people,” Kennewick artist Barb Thrall observes. “I think some of the consequences of this are a devaluing of the medium – I think there has been a misunderstanding” (on the part of the public) “when photographers use Photoshop in the processing of their images.”

Photo enhancement, Thrall goes on, has been around almost as long as the technology of photography its...