On 17 Jun 2005 at 8:51, Shel Belinkoff wrote: > I never considered adding and removing elements to a photograph as > photography. That was all done later, after the photo was taken or made, > using a variety of techniques that only sometimes took place in a darkroom. > There was physically pasting and cutting of different elements into and out > of a > photograph (making a collage) and then rephotographing the result, air > brushing > , masking and painting on negatives (done that myself), tinting or colorizing > a > photograph, and so on. None of these are photographic techniques, and none > required a darkroom.
So blurring the definitions just a little more, would you consider the digital assembly of a series of shots into a continuous panorama as manipulation, collage or a straight photograph considering the obvious initial intention before the shutter was depressed? Rob Studdert HURSTVILLE AUSTRALIA Tel +61-2-9554-4110 UTC(GMT) +10 Hours [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://members.ozemail.com.au/~distudio/publications/ Pentax user since 1986, PDMLer since 1998
