Learning photography teaches me that we don't see reality, anyway. Or at the very least, cameras don't see what we see. An easy example is your area of attenti

Learning photography teaches me that we don't see reality, anyway. Or at the very least, cameras don't see what we see. An easy example is your area of attention. Look at a distant deer in a meadow, you see a deer. Take a photo, and you get a meadow with a speck that might be a deer. I want to see what the photographer saw, or saw in their mind's eye, not the grid-array of photons that struck their retina. Edit: also, astrophotography starts to veer into camera-as-instrument, where you are capturing data invisible to the human eye. You process that data like any other science experiment, and prepare it for visual inspection...