Yes, truth is subjective
_dsc3168, Perhentian Island, Terengganu, Malaysia, originally uploaded by hackspot.
Perhentian Island, Terengganu, Malaysia
Taken with a Nikon D50 and AF Zoom-Nikkor 70-300mm f/4-5.6G lens
Cameras can only photograph the material aspect of a scene. A photograph's beauty or its truthfulness are immaterial and are not happening within the photograph, but within the subject who sees it.
If you make a portrait of a lady without wrinkles, is it "true"? If you photograph more wrinkles, is it "more true"? If you have the ultimate camera that can photograph to infinite detail and infinite sharpness the totality of her face to the smallest wrinkle, is it the "absolute truth" as opposed to the one without wrinkles, which would be a "lie"? If yes, then we have a scale of truth which starts at a lie and finishes at the perfect truth, which depends on image resolution. I do not think things work like that. The portrait with or without wrinkles can be true or not depending on who sees it.
The cameras photograph only the material. All immaterial is outside the scope of a camera or of its by-product the photograph.
Labels: AF Zoom-Nikkor 70-300mm f/4-5.6G, Landscape, Nikon D50, Perhentian 2007, Philosophy of Photography, Photography
