Yes, you right, sometimes I just don't know the right words or the smoot one.
For example where I came from, to say to some one, that he/her is lieing about something is nothing not an insult, but here in america it is. Over here better if I say he/her not saying the thrut insted of saying he/her lie. For me both is a same thing, for americans one of them is an insult.
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But I must say, I try not to focus much on what others do and focus more on my own photography.
I tried not to focus on others, but the pure and true photogaphy can't compete with digital manipulations. And shouldn't compete with it, but they force to compete, just because they are calling the digital art as photography.
Digital manipulations give more opportunity to creating pictures. That's the idea of digital art, and nothing wrong with it! But this is the reason why it is not a photography.
As you said, "...People rely on photography to tell the truth in many cases. And many artists put in the time and work to be there when true magic happens."
But many digital photogrpahers create that "magic" with computer softwers. (yes they can!) Or least create something what is impossible to achive with true photography. But nothing wrong even with this if the viewers knows, that is not a true photo! But if the viewers believe that, it is a photo, from that moment that picture is compete with photography! But that is a very unfear competition!
It is same if painting would try to compete with photography, which one can be more realistic!
So this unfear competition killing the true photography. But it wouldn't be happen, if all the other art form would be call on its true name, which make no confusion.
The oil painting is oil painting the watercolor is watercolor, the photography is photography, the digital grafic is digital grafic, the scannography is scannography, etc.
But I know digital artist try to keep calling themselfs as photographer, and their manipulated pictures as photoraph because they have an unfear advantige over true photography, which give them a cahnce to surpass others even with less skill, less effort.
They don't want this chanse to go away, because if we would call the digital art not a photography, they should to compete in fear chance, which is much harder, and need more effort to stay on top. They want to keep the easy competition.
