You know that plasticky, digital look...?

Lilserenity said:
So the argument that film is more real is flawed before the shutter is released because there are a pair of subjective and ultimately biassed eyes behind the viewfinder before you've even fired that first frame.
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Yes!!!! Exactly my point. I actually got my behind handed to me here once for making a similar argument about an Elliot Erwitt picture, but I still think this is true. I ended up expanding the post into a little essay:

http://www.jrobertlennon.com/articles/erwitt/

Ask ten people to photograph the same subject, you get ten different realities. The fabrication begins as soon as you raise the camera to your eye.
 
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