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Well, many have this opinion over Photography. Especially digital photography.
Digital art using photshop and digital photography are two different things though the line that separates them is thin.
For eg:- This is digital art, where the entire composition is made in photoshop, here nothing is real. Everything is either drawn or cut and pasted. The image below is one I had drawn from scratch using a pen tablet in photoshop. Here the composition itself is not real. Clearly, it is meant for the photoshop thread.
But for images whose appeal is enhanced in Photoshop, the composition is brought from the lens by the cameraman. Pick up any photography magazine I can vouch that half the pages will be dedicated to software manips on images. Even pay a visit to any professional photographer's website to check this out. This is so because in film photography, we used a darkroom to process images from the camera. Clicking an image on film is only half the job done, the photographer then has to process it in his dark room to achieve the desired output. Many techniques like burning and dodging and even compositing (combining 2 or more images ,even HDR) were used by dark room developers.
With the advance in technology, digital media has no film but an image format, which can be equated to the negative since it is the capture of the camera (RAW is equivalent ot the digital negative). And now, the work that used to be done in a dark room has to be done in a digital dark room, which in most cases is a software like Photoshop or Gimp. Most of the filters used in digital software have real dark room counterparts. Though the process of applying it is far less tedious, but then thats what technology is all about! And finally its all about output. When a photo is hung up on a wall or framed on a table, if its looking beautiful, isnt that what is art?
To the photographer the camera is his tool. Digital or Film.
To the artist the camera becomes the color pallette and Photoshop the brushes. If any work is done other than the standard Curves, Color Saturation, and Sharpening, then it becomes the artist's interpretation or expression. Art can be surrealistic too. This is the essence of any form of art, the human element creeps in making every click different even if the same camera system and same composition prevails. some time they go for a natural look, other times a surreal painted look...all dependent on an artists mindset, mood and much more. If we take out this element a photographbecomes a mere piece of documented visual output with no soul. But yes, I agree that pics with no post processing can also yield excellent results by in-camera treatments.
Now, let me go and have a cup of coffee
Regards,
TG.