Comments on: A Pixel Is a Pixel http://www.digitalfieldguide.com/blog/582 Digital Inspiration from Harold Davis Fri, 21 Nov 2008 05:55:42 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.3 By: Mathieu http://www.digitalfieldguide.com/blog/582#comment-5047 Mathieu Sat, 04 Nov 2006 23:04:00 +0000 http://www.digitalfieldguide.com/blog/582#comment-5047 I've recently stumbled unto a process called stacking, which essentially allows you to keep the sharpest, in-focus areas of each of a set of photographs with limited depth of field, to have everything in frame nice and sharp. In macros, this has the effect of eliminating that narrow DOF which instantly identifies a picture as having a large magnification factor... which in some ways makes it look like it might to an observer <em>if he were to as scale with the subject</em>. It's definitely manipulation, but in some ways it restores the image to a more faithful vision of reality by eliminating a technical artifact of photography as a technique. The same can be said of HDR images... or panoramic stitching. I agree with you that it is not trivial to determine what is acceptable or ethical. Perhaps the only thing one can do is add a caption, like the 'artificial color' used with many astronomy or scientific illustrations. I’ve recently stumbled unto a process called stacking, which essentially allows you to keep the sharpest, in-focus areas of each of a set of photographs with limited depth of field, to have everything in frame nice and sharp.

In macros, this has the effect of eliminating that narrow DOF which instantly identifies a picture as having a large magnification factor… which in some ways makes it look like it might to an observer if he were to as scale with the subject.

It’s definitely manipulation, but in some ways it restores the image to a more faithful vision of reality by eliminating a technical artifact of photography as a technique.

The same can be said of HDR images… or panoramic stitching.

I agree with you that it is not trivial to determine what is acceptable or ethical. Perhaps the only thing one can do is add a caption, like the ‘artificial color’ used with many astronomy or scientific illustrations.

]]> By: Photoblog 2.0: » Photoblog 2.0 Archive: » Mono Lake Sunset http://www.digitalfieldguide.com/blog/582#comment-3284 Photoblog 2.0: » Photoblog 2.0 Archive: » Mono Lake Sunset Fri, 25 Aug 2006 22:09:17 +0000 http://www.digitalfieldguide.com/blog/582#comment-3284 [...] and one part post-processing tools. Nadine herself aptly summed up a recent essay of mine, A Pixel Is a Pixel, about digital manipulation as folows: “ALL digital images are manipulated.&#8 [...] [...] and one part post-processing tools. Nadine herself aptly summed up a recent essay of mine, A Pixel Is a Pixel, about digital manipulation as folows: “ALL digital images are manipulated.&#8 [...]

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