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Essay On Picture Perfect

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I wanted to know if how we perceive a picture, how much do we actually believe in it. Since the invention of camera and photography, people have trusted photograph as the element of truth. Unconsciously we tend to believe in what we see in the picture. A photograph is provided as a witness of an event which never happened in front of a viewer’s eyes, but how much can we believe in it? Today with the ease of digital editing of pictures, has shaken our faithfulness in photography. The viewer might need to discrete the difference between the true and fake information given by a photograph. A photograph, once clicked can convey two statements, one of a photographer, what he wants to convey, and one of the audience what he looks at it, gets it and understands it. Since we have this basic notation in mind that camera never lies, there is more to it. Camera is made to deceive and digital media has made it very much possible. …show more content…

I realized that there are so many factors that will affect each and every viewer in some or the other way. Trigger thoughts that might be good or bad. The “Picture perfect” that I found during my studies is there is no such thing as “Picture perfect”. There is no magical formula which decides the perfection of a picture. There are no fixed rules for anything that is related to photography. Blue is a color we named but it is different to every eye. Photography will always be a subjective form of art. It’s a identity of a photographer. Camera is like a personal sketchbook and light is the pencil where as the final sketch we see and view is the photograph. There are so many factors such as emotional levels, knowledge, literacy which will trigger different thoughts for every picture in different people. Exposure, composition, light, can be adjusted. The picture can be printed in the best medium it could, but still it can never be perfect to

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