Re: Apparently, I need to dust off my camera and go shooting again...
Who cares if the scene never happened? Lisa saw her image in her mind and out the right pieces together to create it. And very well at that. There are so many beautiful art images being made now with digital manipulation. All those awesome levitation pics, etc. Beautiful and interesting pictures that have been digitally created are no less valuable than pics of true scenes. Prior to the digital age, there were fabulous film manipulators. They were never viewed as \"less pure\" photographers...quite the opposite as they were viewed as talented artists. I see no reason to \"poo poo\" an image because it was seen in someone\'s imagination first and then created. Lisa\'s work is fabulous.
charlesk wrote:
That is a beautiful scene of a baby sitting in a Radio Flyer in the middle of a road staring at a fantastic sunset.
The problem is that this scene never happened. It was fabricated from several different shots taken at different times.
I never said you weren\'t a photographer. But that image is, IMO, not a photograph. Because in my view a photograph needs to at least approximately resemble what the photographer saw when the scene was taken. We all make adjustments to varying degrees, and naturally some manipulate images more than others. Arguments can be made in many different directions for certain images. But I think you\'ll find most people would put that on the \"digital art\" side of the fence. It\'s a very heavily edited composite. *shrug*
For someone as talented and successful as you are, you have a rather thin skin. You\'ve got a big fan club, so there\'s no need to get \"annoyed\" when some random person like me has a differing opinion. As you\'ve been told before -- many times! -- when you post in a public forum, you will get a variety of views, and you aren\'t going to agree with all of them.
If you want to maintain the mystique of a composite image like that one, don\'t pull back the curtain to reveal the man behind it.
Sep 26, 2014 at 09:48 PM
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