To both that responded. I wasn't trying to start a controversy or "stir things up" I was just expressing my view of what is considered photography vs "graphic arts" as they have evolved today.
Most images in magazines these days are SO photoshopped, the models all look like mannequins, they get rid of whole patches of skin to make the model skinnier, etc etc get rid of stop signs and other objects in the background etc. This is what I mean by "graphic art" it's more like digital painting, it's a post process after the photography part happens that completely changes the image so much that it doesn't at all resemble the original image.
This was done years ago by touchup artists who would manually make changes to the negative or transparency itself, but they weren't called photographers they were called touchup artist or some other name in a different department.
That's what I mean. Now many photographers are also doing that second job themselves (some used to before but the alterations were not so extreme for most). So that's sort of what I mean.
I just want it to be called what it is, which is a part of the production of a type of image, but it's not photography in itself.
If I open photoshop and draw and create an image completely from a blank page, but make it look like .. St a beautiful sunset... That's not photography, that's graphic arts. The photography part happens in the camera, the darkroom printing art work happens in the darkroom, and the photoshopping happens in photoshop, it's part of the process in some photographic work flows, but it's not photography IMO.
I work hard to create a scene and light and stage an image when I take a photo and spend time to perfect the image before its even taken, and it insults me when someone takes a snapshot without all that effort, and then alters the image after and makes it beautiful and ingesting, but they aren't a good photographer, they are a good graphic artist.
Just as no one should call me a graphic artist for my images even if some could be very elaborate and appear to be altered simply because of their creativeness.
Get it?
I'm not saying I'm that good, I'm just using that as an example.
I'm not the best in the world, but look at the few images in my gallery and know that there was almost no post process work done, and if it was, it was probably something I could have done in development of the film itself, not even the printing end. (I think, I haven't looked at my gallery in a while and I know I only have a few up there...).
Again not trying to be an ass just see that there is a separation between the two skill sets and they are linked but also separate skills and should be called such. Again IMO.
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