----- Original Message -----
From: "Paul Stenquist"
Subject: Re: How to make Good Pictures (Let's Free the Captured Images)
On Jun 19, 2005, at 8:05 AM, Tom Reese wrote:
Viewers assume that a photograph depicts reality. They've been trained
since childhood that a picture doesn't lie.
Children aren't allowed to see BW photography? No one could possibly
believe that the world exists in shades of gray. Photos don't depict
reality. Photos are representations of reality that differ from what the
eye sees in a variety of ways.
You are starting to sound like a broken record.
Turn the sky pink for all I care, but if you are going to call your image a
true representation, don't add or remove thinks from it.
Or, if you do, make sure you tell the viewer about it.
The unconstrained revelry that you enjoy in the advertising business is not
the same world that most of us live in.
No one believes your pictures anyway, we are prepared for advertisements to
be optimized to the point of being outright lies.
We are not prepared for it in every picture we see.
William Robb
