Sometimes when people see a photograph they ask the artist something along the lines of “did it really look like that?”. I get that question a fair bit, generally when the image is enhanced. I recently heard the best answer and it goes something like this: “Well, no, but that’s how I felt when I took the photograph!”. It is interesting that vision is a perception rather than an exact process; it’s different for everyone. We all perceive colors, light and shadow differently. So, I’ve taken to just saying something like “Yes! It looked just like that for me!”
Here’s one of my favorite examples of this kind of image; it has a very “cartoony” kind of look:
imageclectic Engagement Portrait in Downtown Austin