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Look at it this way;
I have never seen a photo that looks like a painting, they always miss by yards.
A painting is build up from elements that the painter sees or chose to see.
A photo is a cropping of what is in front of the photographer, the two methods of building a picture mix like oil and water.
People that mean to praise the painter by telling her that it's almost like a photo...welll
On the other side I believe that the photographer try to be selective and pick the elements, so I could suggest that we, in return, praise their pass time results as almost as good as paintings. Knowing they will never meet the ultimate creation because the photo is only a crop, while we make things up, create.
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