[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I can't remember the last time i've seen advertising photography that didn't
> include some compositing of elements. No one calls that a collage. It's a
> photograph. "Collage" suggests numerous elements arranged in an artful
> fashion. A combination of two photos and some retouching to yield a final
> image doesnt' qualify as a collage.
In my opinion, it doesn't qualify as a photograph either.
Cutting and pasting is not photography. It's graphic arts.
I doubt that any two of us will agree on where to distinguish between
photography and graphic arts.
This reminds me of a conversation I had at the 2004 Nature Photography
Weekend. I was standing there hoping to get a good shot of a couger
and I remarked that the chain link fence in the background would spoil
the picture unless the cougar moved. The guy standing next to me said
"I'll just clone that out." Is that acceptable? Not in my mind.
Photographs aren't fake.
Tom Reese
