That is correct. Photography is not reality. I tire of folks saying the image has been digitally enhanced.  Enhanced bodies are one thing…corrected and artistically altered images are something else.   NO photo is reality.  All are simple slices of time counted in the speed of the shutter and then the darkroom work.

 

Do these who criticize digital corrections not know that “unsharp mask” was a sharp scissors and accurate cutting in the darkroom?  Do they not know dodge and burn are confusing to digital correctionists because these are darkroom techniques?

 

Not long ago I read a nice article about the reality of photography. Well, as for me, I like the image if I like the image.  The wonderful landscape of blooming blossoms brings me joy.  It does my imagination well.    I do not sit in the actual field of blossoms being bitten by bugs and watching ants carry my picnic away.  I see the photo and am carried there to an unreal world based on the real world and in that part of appreciation is the photo valuable.   In this photo world, I can be there without the bugs and ants.  In this world I see beyond the simple click of a shutter and see in imagination and joy what it is to me at the moment.   That is a magical sort of thing.

 

My late night thoughts.         TomDart.