What Is a Photo?

Kicking off this first season of A Faster Horse, I'm tackling a topic that really forced itself into my mind every time I got deeper into thinking about photography: What, and I can't emphasize this enough, is a photo? As someone who hasn't been shooting since 20 years, I'm approaching this question with the digital process in mind.

But this discussion isn't an end in itself: I think we need to further acknowledge and understand the challenges everything technical brings for the creative side. Understanding sometimes intricate technical details is a necessary first step.

Whether you're an advanced photographer or the occasional instagrammer, I challenge you to not take something useful or interesting away from this episode :)

• The Art of Photography – What is the photographers intention?
• The Art of Photography – About RAW image files and Lightroom vs Capture One
• Maarten Heilbron – The Myth of colour science — Maarten's really good take on the discussion about "color science", which of course is only relevant when shooting jpg.
• Sean Tucker – To Edit or Not to Edit your Photography? — Sean with a very good take on the – related – discussion about post processing in the stricter sense