I have always felt that photography depicted the truth. However after this class I realized that Photography isn’t always the best way to show the truth. In my high school photo class we were only allowed to use color correction and cropping for our digital projects. So i never thought of using photoshop on digital pictures. When we were allowed to use photoshop to its greatest potential it was strictly for graphic design projects. This why I found it shocking how many adds and photographs are fakes.
I also didn’t realize that how cropping can change the whole purpose and meaning behind a photo. Cropping is a great tool to but can also be tricky when it starts to change the true events. I feel a photographer should crop the photo within their own lens then the photograph depicts the truth within the photographer’s eye.
A lot of the topics discussed in this course helped evolve my idea of what photography truly is. This course also opened my mind up to being more of a critique when I view a photo. Some questions I still have we become to reliant on photoshop to make our photos beautiful? Or have we taken the beauty away from the pictures all together because isn’t there something beautiful about the typical snap shot? Seeing your self, how you looked right at that moment, with out any color correction or enhancement of any kind.
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