"If you have integrity, nothing else matters. If you don't have integrity, nothing else matters."Alan K. Simpson
In keeping with my editorial background and as a response to a lack of integrity on the part of many photographers as it relates to altering photographic images in such a way that the reality of the subject and scene are significantly changed by adding to or removing various objects (background, subject, component, etc.), please note the following:
Photographs are carefully framed and cropped in the camera with minimal post-capture adjustments. The photographs meet accepted editorial standards for processing without invasive alterations or techniques. If a minor change, such as removing a telephone wire, telephone pole, street sign, etc., does not affect the substance and reality of the photograph, then no notation will be made. Photographs are processed with Photoshop utilizing traditional darkroom techniques such as Dodging, Burning, and Masking (to blend light and dark areas of a picture.)
Some special effects, such as Bas Relief, Solarization, or Negative Print, are created in a traditional darkroom and then scanned for digital presentation—some of the same types of special effect digital images are done in Photoshop, mimicking darkroom processes. These images are not noted since they utilize traditional darkroom techniques. Any textures, colors, and lighting elements used are my camera-captured photographs.
Each image is a product consisting of photographs that I have personally shot and processed. Some are composites, where I combine two or more images to create a single picture. Others are digital art, where I stack multiple photographs in layers and combine them in editing software to produce a final image. No computer-generated graphics are used in the creation of any image. The viewer will be able to distinguish the difference by the following notations. Composites will be noted with a CP, and Digital Art will have a DA notation. Photographs will not have a note.