John E.
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Digital Matt said:Art is art. If you like it, great, if you don't fine. Who cares how it was done?
Here here, No truer words ever spoken. Well said.
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Digital Matt said:Art is art. If you like it, great, if you don't fine. Who cares how it was done?
Youngun said:This site is for all things photographic.
kenshabby said:Does a guitarist 'cheat' when he uses a distortion pedal?
kenshabby said:Does a guitarist 'cheat' when he uses a distortion pedal?
kenshabby said:I see your point, but let me put it this way.
I see all art as a distortion of reality. Whether you are using a special lens, zoom, color filters, black and white, long exposure times, etc -- or photoshop -- it's all a distortion.
Artistic photography (to me, anyway) always changes reality by framing reality out, and revealing something in a way that is unusual - the artist communicates by forcing a perspective on the viewer - which the viewer must confront.
Getting that image at the second you press the button on your camera isn't what's important. It's using whatever tools, at whatever time, to say something unique about the world.
Saying that photoshop is not art, seems like saying that the Beatles Sgt Pepper album is not art because they didn't record it live, all at once.
I guess what I'm saying is that ALL art is like a distortion pedal, whether it be a lens, or photoshop, or a paintbrush, or a pen.