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[artshow_photo] Re: When does a photo stop being a photo?

 



--- In artshow_photo@yahoogroups.com, tracy.willis@... wrote:
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> With today's technology, anyone off the street can take a good photo.  But it takes a true artist to make photographic art.  Matters not to me if they do it pre or post shutter.
I think it matters a lot whether it's done before or after the capture. "Post" and you have all the time in the world as well as ability to copy and paste and even modify what is in the scene all at your leisure. Which is more of a technician "photoshop technician" thing. But creating an attractive scene (or finding it) and getting the right light (or providing it) at the time of capture is a far more skilled endeavor because you're working in the "real" world. Not in the computer world.

Photographers (with digital) have taken a hit as being "artists" because the consensus of many is that photographers are doing everything under the sun in photoshop to make something average look way beyond reality, enhancing it to no end. And that often it's computer filters that ANYONE can buy can do it. Compare that with by-hand artists such as painters, sketch artists, sculptors, wood workers who all work with their medium in their hands and not with a computer mouse with automated adjustments and enhancements.

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