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[-] CrayonRosary@lemmy.world 9 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

You're talking about "the whole truth". If the whole is true, then all of the parts are true, so photographing only a subset of the truth (framing) is still true. If a series of events are true, then each event is true, so taking a picture at a certain time (timing) is also true.

Photos capture real photons that were present at real scenes and turn them into grids of pixels. Real photographs are all "true". Photoshop and AI don't need photons and can generate pixels from nothing.

That's what is being said.

[-] NAXLAB@lemmy.world -1 points 1 year ago

Nah, lying by omission can still tell a totally wrong narrative. Sometimes it has to be the whole truth to be the truth.

[-] CrayonRosary@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago

You'd make a bad programmer or mathematician.

[-] NAXLAB@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

Well... Mathematicians would agree with me

[-] CrayonRosary@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago
[-] NAXLAB@lemmy.world -1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Your position assumes also that no photos can be staged. That's a whole category of "true" photos that tell a false narrative.

[-] CrayonRosary@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Neither of us were talking about that. Not in your original comment, and not in my reply. Obviously, I was arguing against your original comment.

I said nothing about staged photos, and bringing that up and saying it's part of my argument is intellectual dishonesty.

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