Exploring Transformations

We all react differently to images, but how do we react to the same image processed in differing ways? There is in my ‘book’, no right or wrong. It is about what the Artist wants to portray. But sometimes the ‘choice’ has to be left to the viewer and simply wishing to stimulate questions is never a bad thing.

And why do we find it so difficult to label a Photographer as an ‘Artist’? In the digital age there seems to be a movement that says that processing images is wrong. I challenge this view emphatically. Here I have depicted Vicki in three ways and I could go on almost indefinitely, but I know what I wished to project about her, which may not be what the viewer sees, so presenting her in different ways surely stimulates thought about how we all see the world?

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Exploring Tranformations

As previously posted, I have become interested in how a ‘base’ image can arouse differing reactions depending on how it is processed (transformed). I do not subscribe to the school of thought that says that a photo should never be processed. That to me is a ridiculous argument as the camera is our tool in the same way that  a paint pallet was/is the tool of the great painters. What we see may not be what we capture when we release the shutter, but we may well know what it is that we want to project from the final image. Yes, we must first know what it is that we want to try and project, but to say that we should never process an image to reflect that desire is (frankly) ridiculous.

My aim in posting these images and those that will follow is to provoke reaction in the form of debate. I shoot and I process afterwards and I love the way that technology allows me to manipulate. My non-purist view may not appeal to everybody, but it is one of the aims of the Photographer to provoke and I hope I do.

 

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