Are Those Photos Real?

When I created my storyboard comic, entitled “Super Lego,” I wanted to give the photos I took a comic book look. I applied filters to the images to accomplish this. However, I wanted to make sure there was also no question as to whether the photos I took were real photos that actually depicted a real Lego scene or not. This relates to a section of the book Practices of Looking where the book discusses how some photos aren’t real and are digitally manipulated to appear real (pg. 217). Digital manipulation has the power to go back through time in images and change them. Some of the time it is amusing and not a big deal when someone inserts themselves into an old photo to make a statement. Other times digital manipulation of photos is used to hide a truth that someone doesn’t want to be revealed when the photo is supposedly supposed to tell exactly what is happening; the truth. Digital manipulation in photos allows designers and artists to achieve what they want and helps them to do so, when they sometimes don’t capture the exact photo that they want.