>>4173062What are you doing even? Are you doing digital art, or are you doing photography? Do you want to capture reality as it is, or do you want to construct images that convey emotions you had in mind as you took a photo? Well, here I am taking a photo of a tram. Why are you doing this? To start a dialogue with the viewer about the issues of the public transportation? To make them feel cozy and nostalgic about trams? My reason is that the tram is fast, and I like trams. I take a photo. It is a photo of a fast tram. It looks fast. I can't add anything more to it, there are no details that I need to pull out of the shadows, that I saw with my high-dynamic-range eyes that my camera failed to capture properly, and the colors look exactly how I saw them, there's no need to mess with them. Photo is perfect, I can even read the number on the side of the tram: 3254. You can see that there are people in that tram. I bet you will stay here, waiting for another tram, to make sure you capture every flaking paint chip. Maybe you have a preset in mind, that will make your train look like a dystopic flesh automaton transportation apparatus worthy of being on a post-rock album cover, or there are tricks up your sleeve that will make it look like a miniature toy in a comfy village. Maybe you will come here the next morning, or wait for another season, when the shadows fall from a different angle. But I move on. The tram is gone. I couldn't have gotten it any righter. Editing will not make it any better, and there is no need to make it any different. I like my tram. And if I put in enough effort, people with names like Jacque and Pierre will pay hundreds of dollars to stand in line at the Wompty-Dompty Dom Exhibition Centre to stare at my picture of a tram, and the subtle pinkness of the lighting and the exciting feeling of its speed, and those tram lights penetrating a bush will move them so much they will run to the bathroom to suck off a stranger with a name like Philippe.
