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There is a whole section of photography that is more graphic design in photoshop than it is taking a photo. Didn't make it there for golden hour? no problem, ju

There is a whole section of photography that is more graphic design in photoshop than it is taking a photo. Didn't make it there for golden hour? no problem, just add the AI sunset. Couldn't get the flowers that are like 10" away from the lens in focus at the same time as the mountain? Also no problem, just clip in a mountain from another photo. I sound like a curmudgeon, but I can't tell what's real so I just ignore all those flashy landscapes because they are probably works of fiction. I'm sure the same people who heavily build an image out of composite parts also take food photos and head shots and everything else. My tastes have swung backwards, to analog cameras that are older than I am, and images that go from a film negative or positive into a print with little to no manipulation.

mc32 4y ago
You sound a bit like Jorg Colberg: "...However, the problem with photography’s deceit — showing us the world as seen by someone’s vision (let’s call it vision) — also creates a problem, especially when we buy into it too much: when we insist on the deceit being overwhelming, crowding out our other, critical facilities." ... "What this means is that the belief what pictures show also includes an element of how they do it. As viewers, we want to be deceived and we don’t want to be told about it. As photographers, we deceive ourselves and we don’t want to be told about that." https://cphmag.com/deceit/ https://cphmag.com/deceit/