![]() Photography has many purposes and this is at the root of the confusion some people experience in regards to the purpose of fine art photography. I often say that if the National Park Service wanted to use my images in their brochures or displays they would first have to agree that my images would not show what people can see by themselves in the park. ![]() After stitching, I distorted the image to enlarge the foreground rock and also to increase the height of the Watchman, the mountain peak at the center top of the image, and make it more dominant and impressive. I could not have created this image with a single capture. This photograph is a collage of three horizontal images taken with a super wide angle lens. What is it exactly? How do you use it? How far can you go with it? However, one has to know how to use this artistic license. This license consists of a large amount of freedom they can use to express themselves, to demonstrate their vision and share their emotions. Artists are granted a license to manipulate reality. The expression ‘artistic license’ says it all. In short, expecting art to faithfully duplicate reality is a misconception, a misunderstanding of the very purpose of art. Art is an artifice, an invention, the product of the imagination and the creativity of the artist. These words point to the transformation created by the artist when going from reality to art. Art is the prefix of words such as artifice or artificial. This concept is present in the word art itself. ![]() In fact, we could say that manipulation is art, or conversely, that art is manipulation. In other words, manipulation is a fundamental aspect of art. ![]() Rather, we manipulate because manipulation is how we express our artistic license. The point that I want to make is that we do not manipulate just because we feel like it. Instead, my purpose is to cover something that I did not address in my previous essay and that is the reasons whywe manipulate. The purpose of the present essay is not to go back over this subject since I covered it extensively already. The goal of that essay was to provide an answer to a question myself and other fine art photographers are asked repeatedly: do you manipulate your work? In this essay I proposed that rather than argue endlessly and often fruitlessly about why we ‘manipulate’, we could simply answer ‘yes.’ Doing so answered the question and made the point that manipulation was an essential aspect of our work. In a way that influences and affects one or more of the senses, emotions and intellect.Ī few years ago I wrote and essay titled Just Say Yes. Art is the product or process of deliberately arranging items (often with symbolic significance) ![]()
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