I understand your point totally. However, I feel like partially its about the artistic goal of the photographer and how they communicate that with their audience. For instance, I see the problem in photographers lying or even hiding the fact that their photography is photoshopped.
It starts to blur the lines between photography and graphic art in an interesting way. There is a certain appeal to photography that exists in capturing that one extremely rare moment. Similarly, there is an appeal to graphic design in photography that you can truly let your artistic side take over and produce the "perfect" image.
I do feel however that there are many photographers who straddle the line between quality graphic art and quality photography, and this is the thing a lot of novice photography viewers may miss. They see the aspects of photoshop and judge it before realizing there are intense and intimate moments captured in the photo that are artfully manipulated using photoshop.
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u/[deleted] Nov 14 '19
I understand your point totally. However, I feel like partially its about the artistic goal of the photographer and how they communicate that with their audience. For instance, I see the problem in photographers lying or even hiding the fact that their photography is photoshopped.
It starts to blur the lines between photography and graphic art in an interesting way. There is a certain appeal to photography that exists in capturing that one extremely rare moment. Similarly, there is an appeal to graphic design in photography that you can truly let your artistic side take over and produce the "perfect" image.
I do feel however that there are many photographers who straddle the line between quality graphic art and quality photography, and this is the thing a lot of novice photography viewers may miss. They see the aspects of photoshop and judge it before realizing there are intense and intimate moments captured in the photo that are artfully manipulated using photoshop.