Thursday, June 4, 2009
Is altering digital photography a form of art or is it a fraud?
Well I guess at one point you can call photo manipulation or the altering of photos a fraud because this is a cheat that can make your photos look very beautiful, add some designs and effects and remove unwanted parts of the picture. It is also a fraud if you altered it and used it in bad things like for example the using of adobe Photoshop to ruin somebody or sometimes to make some issues and to forge some images. But for a photo manipulator like me I guess altering this photos and images are still a work of art because of instead of the plain picture you can add up some effects to it that will be more appealing to the eyes and still whether its a plain photograph or an altered one it's still a work of art because you have worked hard for it and you used your talents to make it.
well this is an example of a manipulated photo:
Well these are some photos that are altered and manipulated by me but i guess even it is altered it is still a work of art because i worked hard for it and so that the photograph will look good.
2 comments:
I agree with that. If one thinks that "real" photography is only through the use of film, and without any manipulation or control done to it, then we can call digital photography + manipulation some sort of a "cheat". But, all has it's place in this world. Each has its purpose. And it wouldn't be fair to directly compare one with the other. Some people do not intend to shoot and finish right there. Some intend to be true to their form and not edit the photo at all. Which is fine. But film is film and digital, is well ... digital. The very essence of anything "digital" is the ability to manipulate and edit anything that is represented by digital data. This is the advancement given to us by digital. Not using it is like stagnating and wasting the gift that has been given to us in this generation. And that includes, pixels on a digital photo, or data on a digital ID record.
During the time of film, some people manipulated their photos in various ways. Some did "Cross Processing" (processing film using a different chemical to achieve special photographic effects and coloring), and some even applied specialized textures onto their lenses (letting molds grow on the lens glass surface, etc...) or did double exposures and added textured material to achieve a very unique effect. From this we can see that creativity is not limited by anything. A lot of creative people wanted to achieve new things. With imagination and a brilliant mind, anybody can make something new; out of the ordinary. There are no rules to creating new things. Film will be film, and digital will be digital. Saying that "true" photography is only for those who do not edit is just not right. As if editing a photo does not require time, skills, and dedication to achieve something.
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