Re: [APML]: Astrophotography or Astro-Art?

[Jerry Lodriguss <jml@astropix.com>]

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>I have argued that point in the past. I do not see burning and dodging
>as manipulation. For me manipulation is to alter content. Releasing what
>is already there by burning or dodging is not changing the content,
>simply qualifying it. If you see detail in a cloud, but not on the
>image, is it manipulation to bring out that detail? I see burning or
>dodging as a creative process to saturate the veiwer with the quality of
>the scene we tried to depict. Ansel Adams I understand tried to do the
>same.

Gregory,

When Ansel Adams photographed Hernandez, New Mexico, the sky was not black.
 He made it black by filtration and burning in the darkroom.  The sky is
not black during the daytime when the sun is still up, not even during a
total eclipse of the sun.  Now, if you don't call that altering the content...

Jerry

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