On Wed, Mar 11, 2009 at 6:44 PM, William Robb <[email protected]> wrote: > > ----- Original Message ----- From: "Gonz" > Subject: Re: Ethics of Manipulation (was: Re: Perspective control > (was:PESO:Church tower)) > > >> I partially disagree. Virtually anything you can do in photoshop you can >> do >> with film. Multiple exposures, filters (look at what ND or graduated >> filters can do, or polarizers), perspective lenses, fish-eye lenses, >> or I can even print out a cutout of myself and add it to the set, >> making it look like there are two or more of me. Yes, in its very >> essence, the photo is a direct and "true" capture of the light that >> made it past the lens, but the light can be manipulated to tell a >> different story than what our eyes perceive to be there, i.e. filters >> or polarizers. > > Yes but... > It's easier to tell a lie with Photoshop than it is to tell a lie in the the > darkroom. > Or, I suppose, it's easier to tell a real whopper with Photoshop compared to > what you can do in the darkroom. >
With the exception of very long exposures, i.e. the famous photo of an LA freeway that showed no cars on the road because the exposure was so long. Try doing that with photoshop. rg > William Robb > > -- > PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List > [email protected] > http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net > to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and > follow the directions. > -- Rhetoric is a poor substitute for action, and we have trusted only to rhetoric. If we are really to be a great nation, we must not merely talk; we must act big. - Theodore Roosevelt -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
