What constitute a lie? Is it just when it's digitaly manipulated? is it when it's staged? how about presenting just one image instead of a whole range of moments showing different views of the same thing?
2007-01-23 22:19:07 · 18 answers · asked by Elizabeth 2 in Arts & Humanities ➔ Visual Arts ➔ Photography
I give a big hearty disagree.
Like any other form of communication, photography needs context to be interpreted. When viewed without context you will see whatever you want to in a picture. It's just like looking at a cloud. Lenses, angles and lighting can make the same scene look completely different. Cinematographers do this all of the time by arranging their shots to portray what they want their audience to see. They can turn day into night and a big room into a small one, all done in camera.
Also, changing your point of view, or focus while viewing a picture will let you see things you didn't see before. It has something to do with the whole objective/subjective thing.
2007-01-26 20:09:33 · answer #1 · answered by Reality check 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Clear writing is an indicator of clear thinking, but the reverse is not necessarily true. Many mathematicians, scientists, inventors, spiritual thinkers are often poor writers - different skill sets and talents. Also, much creative thinking may be non-linear. As mentioned above, many creative thinkers may have ADD, dyslexia, etc. A recent survey in UK found that 20% of small business owners and entrepeneurs had ADD and /or dyslexia - and considered it a distinct advantage. If you can not think well, then others will do it for you. I would suggest that this has two parts: 1. can you think independently and creatively; 2. can you tell right from wrong or good from bad - and are you willing to make a decision about how to act on that. I will gladly let someone else think creatively for my benefit - develop new medicines, invent new technologies, write music and poetry, etc. That does not mean that I am not able to make my own decisions about what is right or wrong and express or act on those thoughts.
2016-03-29 00:00:09 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
The camera cannot lie! The camera just captures the light reflecting off whatever it is pointing at when the shutter is opened. The manipulation of the image (either digital or film emulsion) can be done whilst either digital manipulation in Photoshop™ or similar software or when processing film emulsion in the darkroom with dodging or burning with various hand made tools
2007-01-24 02:42:24 · answer #3 · answered by slowpokesrool 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
A camera cannot lie, it can't even speak silly. No seriously though.....When someone takes advantage of another persons trust by not providing information, altering it, or omitting some of the truth, then it is a lie. Digital manipulation, staging, or alteration of any kind from the original (in my eyes) constitues a "lie". Either way, a picture is still worth a thousand words :)
2007-01-23 22:25:52 · answer #4 · answered by Dirt 2 · 0⤊ 1⤋
A camera can not lie because it can only produce images based on actual object focused. It can only lie when its product is manipulated by a human to produce an image fdifferent from what it focused. Then at this stage, it is not the camera that is lying but he/she who manipulated it.
2007-01-23 22:30:42 · answer #5 · answered by Andrew O 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
No, the camera cannot lie, strictly speaking, but it can be made to deceive and it never tells the entire truth. In the sense that straight lines frequently show as curved, it distorts the truth.
Using Photoshop is not valid, for then it is not the camera which is falsifying things.
2007-01-23 22:25:19 · answer #6 · answered by Owlwings 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Actually it can lie. Because if it takes a different picture then what you see with your eyes, that is called a lie.
For excample if it changes the color (filter could be used) or so on... otherwise the pictures onlyl start lieing when it's been edited in photoshop.
2007-01-28 06:45:13 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
An unedited picture doesn't lie about what you see in the picture, but what is on camera is not always truthful in reality. i also agree with the people that say stuff about photoshop or editing pictures: your modifying what was there so it is a lie, technically.
2007-01-24 07:13:38 · answer #8 · answered by defy gravity! 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The camera wont lie, but the person standing behind it, or in possesion of the image can most certainly lie, its human nature.
2007-01-23 22:28:55 · answer #9 · answered by mickattafe 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The camera is truthful in capturing what it sees. BUT untruthful in calling it that... because sometimes it is vastly different to reality. So I disagree that the camera cannot lie.
2007-01-23 23:00:40 · answer #10 · answered by Mz Ammie 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋