Kenny MidnightOkay - I know I’m a week behind, but how is Apple’s Spatial Reframing in the Photos app even ethical?
“I wish I’d gotten a better pic.”
“Well,” says Apple, “what if we just lie?”
Dr. Joe Sarsero, Ph.D.@macosken TBH I’m finding it difficult to get angry about this.
We have been able to make literally hundreds of modifications to a photo for decades.
Brightness & Contrast, Exposure, Crop & Straighten, Hue / Saturation, Curves, Sharpening, Noise Reduction, Healing / Spot Removal, Vignette, and Color Grading / LUT., etc, etc., etc.
I see this is just an additional feature.
Just IMHO. I understand others having a different opinion.
@joesarsero I guess the difference to me - since we were first able to develop photographs we could change exposure, then hues eventually. We’ve never been able to change where the subject and photographer were in relation to each other after a picture was taken. We could photograph lies, but we could either trust that the photo had been taken as seen, or look for signs of manipulation. And still - manipulation took some skill. I guess I worry that pictures lose value when we cannot trust them.🤷♂️
quekers@macosken @joesarsero If you’ve been in a darkroom in the old days, we’d overlay 2 frames of film on the magnifier to juxtapose whatever so #photography has never been about capturing reality but an artistic expression of what the artist’s eye sees. That’s why people get upset when their snapshots don’t look like what they thought they shot when the prints came back.