![]() ![]() (Film cameras are a different process altogether, but still a system.) Printed images take this a step further, converting that RGB system into CMYK (cyan, magenta, yellow, black). We can see over 10 million colors in the visual spectrum digital cameras instantly distill that vast range into a system of RGB (red, green, blue). Cameras focus and reduce our visual world. The images they produce might be more 'rendered,' but they're designed to tell a story. Because of this, society has come to believe that these images are in fact reality, and objective reality to boot. We know more about social media than the world immediately in front of us: T.V., billboards, magazines, and ads influence so much of how we see. Today, we see most of the world through other people's realities or through our own digital means. "Untruth is cutting out a piece of nature and copying it." The point here isn't that it's bad to use photo reference - but the secondary work shouldn't look as if you did. How often have you heard someone praising a painting because it looks just like a photograph? The purpose of painting is not to replicate a photograph. "Has it ever occurred to you that a photograph is the unrealest of things? The camera sees its subject so much faster than the eye can see it - that the result is something that you have never seen."
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