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From: "Paul Stenquist"
Subject: Re: How to make Good Pictures (Let's Free the Captured Images)
No, the "has to be real" principle is full of holes and full of shit. The
advocates are only opposed to computer manipulation. Any other method of
altering reality is okay. That's nonsense.
I have problems with passing cut and past colloges off as photographs.
Doing cut and past with paper images or multiple enlarger set ups is time
consuming in the extreme, and is very difficult to do convincingly.
Hell, even removing the leash from a dog would be a daunting task for most
photographers using brushes and spotting dye, especially in colour.
I know I couldn't do it.
Now, it is quite easy to make major reworks of images, and to do it
convincingly.
I think that a lot of people are reveling in the easiness of it, and are
justifying doing it any way they can.
It makes it more difficult to be sure if the subject of the picture really
exists.
For me, that matters.
YMMV
William Robb
