i haven't posted for awhile - i've been ruminating. i received a lot of opinions on a previous post entitled photo ethics. i had to do a good bit of thinking about and evaluating all of the information that i received. to those of you who took the time to write, i thank you. opinions were wide spread and all contained thought provoking reasons for seeing things the way you all did.
so, i have finalized my thought process. from this point forward, i am no longer a photographer, rather i have decided that i am a photographic artist. i will use my shooting and computer skills to enhance, change or create the image that i will present to the world. whether it represents an accurate representation of the scene which actually existed, or it is what i saw in my mind's eye, or whether it is simply the path that the image and i took through the computer after snapping the shutter, i reserve the right to make it whatever my little heart desires. (of course you're probably thinking to yourself that i always had the right to do just that, but i was endlessly concerned that i wasn't presenting the image as faithfully as i could/should).
take for example, the image above. it's a shot from a series that i took this week at fort popham, in phippsburg, maine. although to begin with, i know good and well that the camera is incapable of capturing the scene in the same way i saw it with my eyes. nevertheless, i have decided that i want to process it in an entirely different light (pun intended).
the top image is straight out of the camera (actually, it's one of three bracketed shots). the second, of course, is the image after a lot of post processing. it's how i want the world to see it. it probably sounds like a no brainer to you, but in the past, this much altering of the original image would cause me to wail and gnash my teeth.... but not anymore.
i'm cured.
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