HT1327 - Photography and the Idealized World
LensWork - Photography and the Creative Process - A podcast by Brooks Jensen
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Photography's greatest strength is that it can show us what is. There is a truthfulness inherent in photography - - or at least as objective as is possible. Have you noticed how much of today's technology is targeted at idealizing the world rather than revealing it? Photoshop and Lightroom are all about "improving" the subject, be it landscapes or people. Your model has a pimple? No problem. Your landscape is hazy? No problem. What ever happened to showing us what is rather than what we'd like it to be?
