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Simple: a "real" photo is one in which a light field from the real world impinges on a photosensitive media (CCD, film), and directly encodes that information,
by kortex 4y ago
Simple: a "real" photo is one in which a light field from the real world impinges on a photosensitive media (CCD, film), and directly encodes that information, with some allowance for global light levels, gain, ISO, and speed. Anything else is a modification therein. HDR, multi-exposure compositing, etc, aren't truly "real". They may be 99% real, but aren't 100% real. If you crop it, it's 99.9% real (we have models which can detect cropping and even from which region it originated, obviously it can't reconstruct the missing data).
Yes, by that definition, most photographs already aren't real.
- simondotau 4y agoSo if I take a photo of a photoshopped photo, it is a real photo.
- cgio 4y agoIt is a real photo of a photoshopped photo, not a real photo of the photoshopped photo’s subject.
- Swizec 4y ago> Yes, by that definition, most photographs already aren't real. What if I use no digital manipulation at all, but play around with focal lengths or perspective to produce the desired effect. Is that a real photo? For example from covid reporting: https://twitter.com/baekdal/status/1254460167812415489 https://twitter.com/baekdal/status/1254460167812415489
- kortex 4y agoSure, I'd say that's a real photo - you could easily pull it off with a single exposure of film. Just because the photo is real, doesn't mean it's free from deception. I could take a "real video" of gorilla suit^W^W bigfoot and it'd still be deceptive.