Chapter 5

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Taxi - Jonathon Sumner

Distortion

All photographs distort reality to a lesser or greater degree. The very act of converting three-dimensional reality into a two-dimensional print is a distortion in itself. The simplest of photographic techniques used by the photographer and editor can manipulate and distort the information that the pho to graph puts for ward to the viewer. The act of framing composes the visual elements within the frame and decides which of the visual elements in the original scene we can or cannot see in the final photograph.

The viewer can be led through the print in a systematic way through the use of line, tone and ...

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