... dedicated professional. How well a photograph is taken will depend on many factors and the experience of the photographer will often be important but with the rise in digital photography and affordable photo editing packages for the computer the authenticity of photographs is now being questioned more often. The aim if this essay will be to investigate why people sometimes question the validity of photographs and explore how visual perception in photography can influence how photographs are interpreted. How true is the argument that 'the camera never lies'? A photograph is a representation of something in reality that could only be produced because that something (whether it be an object, a person or a view for example) was there to photograph in the first place. You can't take a photograph of something that doesn't exist and this is where are trust in photography lies. As a still visual medium photography ...

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