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 Posted: Fri Feb 8th, 2019 03:44
Robert



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I have just browsed through a list of images from an international garden photographer of the year competition.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/in-pictures-47118130

Many of the images contain significant noise and in some, pastel shades dominate. While they are lovely images, I doubt if they are particularly accurate colour wise.

My question is, does this really matter when we are making artistic images.

If you examine paintings, even the work of the great masters, brush strokes are plainly visible, they form the image. Film and paper processing uses fine dots to create the image, so why can't digital photography contain some element of noise, as a part of the image.

I accept for documentary and product photography, colour accuracy and sharpness are important but does that hold true for artistic photography, with which I believe we are mainly concerned?



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