On Thu, September 1, 2011 09:12, Jeff McSweeney - Creative Strategist wrote: > > By entering a scene the photographer, by her very presence, changes the > truth. More or less, sure. > The use of a wide angle or telephoto lens, black & white or color, to lie > down or stand on a ladder changes the truth. No, it does not. It changes the image. It does NOT change the truth. > There is no such thing as a purely true image. I don't know what "purely true image" means. To a first approximation, ALL camera-original images are "true". (What they're not, IMHO, is "complete".) > For the sake of this discussion please share the image that carries the > most truth to you. Some one image? For me, that's not a meaningful question. -- David Dyer-Bennet, dd-b@xxxxxxxx; http://dd-b.net/ Snapshots: http://dd-b.net/dd-b/SnapshotAlbum/data/ Photos: http://dd-b.net/photography/gallery/ Dragaera: http://dragaera.info