What do I repeat about my own portrait craft? 'They are not so much about character portrayals as they are a shared experience of an emotional moment.'
That's what this is. I can feel her personality radiating from this image. I can feel her happiness in this moment. Emotions are always more authentic than appearances.
So, tell me .. does it really matter if she's just pixels when my senses tell me she's real?
& we haven't yet introduced Quantum physics to the discussion.
See it here! The trick-of-the-light which fools the eye? The rim light tenderly igniting the very edges of her hair.
You show me this for the first time as a print with a bit of grain added in and there's no way that I am buying the tale that it is not an actual photograph, NFW!
Here is a photograph .. for all intents and purposes .. a photographic portrait of an actual person.
tell me "no!"?
Print this onto canon film-print quality paper, perhaps with a bit of grain added in .. and then place it in a small stack of B&W analog photographs and let someone unaware twl you if there is a portrait of someone in the mix who is crafted from nothing but pixels.
What then?
We are entering into a borderland where such philosophical debates shall be unavoidable. I say: What are we waiting for? Let's begin the discussions .. before they, and perhaps we, become irrelevant.
Black and white photograph, 3/4 face, portrait of dark haired young gypsy woman, gentle, knowing smile, decorative jewellery, long lush dark wavy hair, 64 megapixels, 8K resolution, back lit, diffuse light, Kodak Ektar, sharp focus, 8K resolution