'Alex, the perfection you seek "in camera" is impossible by either chemical or electronic means.'
Yes, that's quite true.
'You have to use darkroom or digital software to obtain what is nearer "reality" than has been captured by the camera.'
That's impossible unless you have a perfect mental picture in your head of what the scene was like so you can then go away and make what your camera has produced into what you think is real. I trust a frame of film or a digital picture more than my memory when it comes to remembering light ;-)
'just framing and composing the shot alters reality'
IMHO this isn't so. Framing and composing simply give you another outlook on reality, they don't really change it. I guess there are little optical illusions you can create such as perspective but what you're looking at is still a real moment in time as seen in a particular way from a particular point.
When reading, we often come to find that fact can be stranger than fiction. The same is true of photography. I elevate my picture taking to an art form by 'recording light' in a way that strikes us as odd, interesting, beautiful..(at least I try my very best to)...whilst trying to stay as close as possible to what is real, and that 'close as possible' comes when you have a correctly taken picture in terms of exposure and sharpness.
However, when the picture isn't sharp or well exposed for whatever reason, perhaps it is reasonable to correct it ever so slightly ;-)
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