A picture is a perfect representation into someone’s soul. A picture can represent and pick up little necessities on any person and of any person that you can’t find in person or you can’t pick up in a painting.
Taking pictures can often times be an ethical problem because while many photographers attempt to portray something it can lead to misrepresentation. Honestly I think it depends on your own moral code to determine what and when it is ethically wrong to digitally alter a photograph. Personally I don’t believe in altering photographs for one reason and that reason being that a photograph is a representation of a person not a representation of a digitally altered version.
I see portraits everywhere starting in the morning with the pictures in my room and the billboards and posters on my way to class and perusing facebook constantly throughout my day. The difference between facebook pictures and pictures on the news isn’t much in my opinion. While there isn’t much of a difference the one difference is very big. The intent is a little different for the news is often times meant to portray something bigger than ourselves but facebook is more of a fun release for friends to share pictures with one another.
While a picture can look into the soul of a person a picture can also look into the soul of the photographer. The photographer chooses what to take a picture of, who to take a picture of, and how to take the picture. The photo really tells more about the photographer than the subject itself.
The picture is what you make of it. A picture isn’t just taken without looking through a viewfinder. A picture is carefully constructed perfectly angled and almost never taken by accident. A picture is a picture because someone wanted it to be.
The picture is what you make of it. A painter paints what he wants to paint and portrays his own interpretation of the scene but a photograph is more open to a viewer’s interpretation because a picture captures a scene for what it is and technically a photographer can’t change what a viewer sees.
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