There is a raging debate right now among pro and hobbyist photographers alike about where to draw the line when editing images. Of course, this stems from the other big debate around the role of AI (artificial intelligence) in photography, but comes at it from a different slant.
Some time ago, Samsung was accused of faking a moon image to demonstrate the new low light (or was it astro?) features of its latest smartphone. Samsung’s response was that nothing is “real” in photography anyway so what does it matter?
What does it matter?
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I gave my first full length feature talk on photography this month, to a sister camera club. Its members were knowledgeable, animated and fully open to the challenge of challenging me to entertain them. It isn’t easy spending 90 minutes in front of an audience, especially when any of them could have as readily been the speaker for hire.