Art is not about deception, it is the basic application of the tenets of good artistic style and techniques taught to and used by the artist to convey.  The fundamentals of shape, color, and light are basic to all good artistic composition.   When learned and applied, with the addition of experience, which adds ones ability to the end result, makes for the talented, a poetic expression of ones inner sight.

 

When I create a work of art, it is about how I see and what I feel, not whether I do not have enough experience that I have to deceive.  Deception will corrupt your perception and give you a false sense of accomplishment. 

 

It would seem you have different perceptions of art.  I do not cheat because I know what I am doing.  I do what I do quickly because of experience, and all that I have learned in the course of achieving what I do quickly.  I do not need to use tricks when I add an additional light that the software does not use, my experience tells me I can do it in a better fashion and get a better view. 

 

As an old photographer, I never cheat, I compose, alter to show how I see the world through my perception.  That perception was generated through trial and error while learning good habits of the fundamentals of art, and became my particular style and technique.

 

But, everyone sees the world differently, which would make for an endless subject.

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