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Since when is reality black&white, 2-dimensional, in a rectangular frame and frozen in time?
In case if you haven't noticed it is photography forum here. Keep it in mind next time.
My response would be similar.The OP question is not to know if a photo is truthful or not but to know if photography is supposed to be reality or not.
My response would be similar.
There are real photos that are truthful and have not been manipulated and unreal photos that have and are not truthful. Arguing that all photos are unreal and untruthful is not accurate.
My response would be similar.
There are real photos that are truthful and have not been manipulated and unreal photos that have and are not truthful. Arguing that all photos are unreal and untruthful is not accurate.
The judge and the jury will know what is reality and what isn't even if we photographers don't.know the difference. They would laugh at our word games saying there is no difference.Again, the topic is not about truth but reality.
thanks MCM ..
when i close my eyes and sometimes dream when i sleep .. that is my experienced 1sthand reality too
sometimes it has people and places i know and are familiar, sometimes not. when i make a photograph
even in my wake-state its the same thing.
sometimes because of the limitations of the device i use to make the photograph
what i see is not what i get. sometimes what i don't see is what i get like the upload in the gallery i made today
of a tree with no trunk .. it was there when i made the photograph... unlike my previous example of cars vanishing
with a 7 second long exposure ... the tree was not moving except with me through time and space along with my camera.
The judge and the jury will know what is reality and what isn't even if we photographers don't.know the difference. They would laugh at our word games saying there is no difference.
I think the important part is to question what reality is. Some just assume what they are told is true. Question reality. Question authority.The unreliability of witness testimonies demonstrate the fact that no one knows what reality is.
This scenario is essentially the same as surveillance cameras, and as such would have some, but not a lot of probative value.You don;t need the photographer to say what he saw. MAybe he saw nothing. He was shooting a landscape and the camera caught a photo of the criminal. The photographer never noticed him when he shot the picture however, the photo is evidence as long as the photographer says he did not edit it. That makes the photo truthful. If he edited it, the photo would be thrown out as untruthful.
Surely the photographer has merely, incorrectly, underexposed for the trunk. Given sufficient time, light or ISO the trunk would be recorded.[/QUOTE][
if it is "truthful" where might we
find trees filled with leaves floating above the ground ... without a trunk ?
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no i haven't , thank you for posting this !In some cultures, dreams are more valid and real than life. Have you seen Waking Life?
This scenario is essentially the same as surveillance cameras, and as such would have some, but not a lot of probative value.
As a retired lawyer, I've used photography when presenting evidence in court and have a reasonable idea of when and under what circumstances its use is permitted , along with how to use it with effect.
The unreliability of witness testimonies demonstrate the fact that no one knows what reality is.
Now we are confusing reality with memory. The rabbit hole is getting deeper.
Now we are confusing reality with memory. The rabbit hole is getting deeper.
Bad memory or bad photograph, or both?not really
the person insisted that was a photograph of someone else
had no idea who it was and i was almost sent out to rephotograph the subject
because the portrait i took of her did not look like her
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