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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