The Photographer's Eye: Graphic Guide

PART 10

COMBINING

Digital photography’s Original Sin is the manipulation of what used to be called “reality.” Seamless and faultless, this practice preyed on the naïve belief that photographs showed what was actually present. After all these years it still causes dispute and heated argument. Much of the dilemma hinges on what the digitally altered image is trying to do. At its most basic, is the photographer trying to fool people into believing that the image hasn’t been manipulated? And even if the aim is fooling the audience, is the intention pure or impure? Pure in this sense means, for example, art, while impure means making money, or delivering ...