As you say, no camera can capture what the human e...

2013-01-23T16:02:29.460+02:00

As you say, no camera can capture what the human eye can and we don't even process things in the same way when we are there and when looking at a picture. A picture itself is not "reality". We're not there, where it was taken. The sights, sounds, smells, curiosities of that particular space and time are data we do not have. By definition, a photo is merely a visual representation of the moment. It's a painting of it, done by a machine.

The complaints come from people who are against idolizing people and view technology as a threat to their artistic expression. Which, if you think about it, is their own type of "cheating" and makes for double standards. This is the moment as I want it to be seen and anything and anyone who thinks differently are cheaters.

While I am certainly against distorting reality and trying to pass it off as reality (which is the morally incorrect thing to do), I do not feel being creative is cheating. It's art and it's creating a spectacle for the eyes. It's a way to convey the things you want to covey through the tweaking you do.

Like with any medium or tool, it is not the tool itself which brings moral or creative conflict, it's how people use it. Manipulating pictures and using that to form a fake reality, in order to convince people that is what they should strive for, is wrong. Not Photoshop, but what people do with it.

Also, there is a lot of tweaking happening to a camera even before post-processing in Photoshop. Why is that not called cheating as well? And to put it more simply. Haters gonna hate. :P

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