CHECK IT OUT. This article on photoshopping pics from "Outside" magazine provides a great compliment to our discussions of _Cat's Cradle_, and it raises additional interesting questions for both readers and viewers, photographers and photographs, writing and writers.
Here's a sample:
"Of course, truth in photography has always been fuzzy. The old trope 'The camera never lies' is, in fact, backwards—the camera always lies. Since the birth of the medium, photographers have been crafting their images with lens selection, film type, and all manner of darkroom tricks."
I'll look forward to any and all comments you would like to submit!
I like this because my camera in fact has a mode called "beauty shot". It works wonders and makes all your blemishes go away. Although looking at the person in front of you evryone can tell they have those marks on their face. But hey it's great to pretend isn't t?
ReplyDeleteTechnology has made the true meaning latent. As time goes on there are many new technological advances for mankind. It may seem that this is one of them. With out the digital software the picture may give a completely different meaning with in itself. The picture may not have the expected meanings of the photographer but completely different ones. The software that is used today for photography beautifies the picture to a whole new level. The minds wildest imaginations of details, texture, color can be made true by today's software. It is not really deceitful to the viewer if now the picture can be viewed in the way the photographer had in mind. It's just have to different perceptions of the same picture. So either it's a win win situation.
ReplyDeleteI think I have finally established some kind of understanding for this course thanks to this picture. In the beginning, I thought we were picking out truths and lies.Now I am thinking does it matter? I mean afterall, it is a pretty picture!
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