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has-text-color\" style=\"font-size:17px\"><em><strong>\u201cis that real?\u201d<\/strong><\/em>&nbsp;ask my friends about pretty much all of the photographs i post online. the answer is no. i have never seen a&nbsp;<em><strong>\u201creal\u201d<\/strong><\/em>&nbsp;photograph.<br><br>whether it be changing the shutter speed, f-stop, asa, iso, lens, uv filters, selective composition, brands of darkroom chemistry, cropping, or dodging and burning, one would be hard-pressed to provide example of a photograph that was not somehow manipulated.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-light-green-cyan-color has-text-color\" style=\"font-size:17px\">taking basic image manipulation a step further, i often remove entire backgrounds, convert color photos to black and white, re-introduce selective spot color, employ filters electronically, combine multiple images into composite prints, and generally distort&nbsp;<em><strong>\u201creality\u201d<\/strong><\/em>&nbsp;in any way that seems like 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