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The True Paradox Of Digital Photography

Can you define the real essences of digital photography? This debate has gone on for many years. Generally it ends up being about whether digital photography is a true art form or just a form of science.

We’ll argue both sides and you can decide for yourself:

1. Digital Photography As An Art – An artists expresses emotions and individuals who use digital photography to express their art are no different. It is seen as a continuation of drawing or painting. The reason behind this is because digital photographs can be modified and rearranged with software such as Photoshop.

Also great art takes a sentiment of the eye to see great subject matter despite the fact it can be digitally altered. Anybody can take a picture with a digital camera but it’s the true artist that can make the picture come alive with the emotion only they can draw out.

2. Digital Photography As A Science – There is the argument that digital photography, unlike a painting, is made from something and not from the mind and emotion of the painter. This is a persuasive argument since the photographer doesn’t actually make the photograph he or she just takes it.

As far as the editing software use on digital photographs is nothing more than a set of simply followed steps that almost anyone can duplicate once they learn how to do it. These constants make digital photography a science.

So now we’ve read the arguments supporting both sides. Have you come to a conclusion as to whether digital photography is art or science? Is there a solution to this question?

It seems that the true nature of digital photography will continually remain paradoxically. So it can and will be considered both an art form as well as a science. Can this paradox be solved? I think it is solved when someone takes a digital photograph.

So the true nature of digital photography rests with the individual who is taking the photograph. It’s all in the process of how the photographer treats the entire process that will ultimately define it true nature. It’s both an art and a science but not absolutely either. It is a total paradox in the truest sense. And that is the absoluteness of digital photography.