The Camera Never Lies: A laugh out loud tale of life in the spotlight

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Don’t believe me? Do you squint when you see a photo of bright sunlight? No. If you look at a photo of darkness will more detail emerge from that photo the longer you look at it? No. But the real question here isn’t about how paranoid we should be—it’s about who we should trust. God sees what the cameras can’t Niépce used a cumbersome box that had to be pointed at a subject for multiple days while the sun burned that image into the bitumen coating of a lithographic stone.

When we treat that fragment as the complete picture, it’s easy to walk away with a distorted view of a situation. Today, there are phones with lenses and sensors smaller than your fingertip designed to record not just a single frame, but entire videos—60 frames captured every second, each one recorded in 4K resolution and accompanied with perfectly crisp audio. I found this book to be very intriguing and I wondered what my photograph would show if this camera was used to take my picture! The Camera Never Lies is a reminder that we often keep secrets to avoid pain or embarassment but these secrets can destroy our lives and the truth needs to be made known. It doesn't have a strong spiritual presence in the plot but author David Rawlings does convey in his story the need for honesty and he mentions the consequences and dangers of alcohol abuse, addiction, and acting on physical attraction. Needless to say, I loved this novel. At times, it was hard to like Daniel. The author played heavily on Kelly’s insecurities and added a troubled daughter to an already unstable dynamic. But everything worked. The characters fed on each other’s guilt and problems while trying to cover their own in a realistic view of how life can fall apart when we leave God out of the equation.

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I think this novel will find a good consistent three-star "beach read" following, but it just felt a little too choppy and poorly executed for my tastes. The apparatus [a camera] can't mistake. When I travelled round with this machine, the homely folks used to sing out, "Hillo, mister, this ain't like me!" "Ma'am," says I, "the apparatus can't mistake." If they continue to complain that the photograph wasn’t agreeable, he follows up with a reminder that “the truth seldom is.”) A slightly modified version of the phrase occurs just a few months earlier, in the Ohio newspaper The Sandusky Register, February 1895:

The camera stores images in digital memory. It stores 3 colours – red, green and blue and it stores them with a limited dynamic range – that is, the range from the lowest brilliance to the highest brilliance and that is FAR from as wide a range as nature can throw at it. Technically there are only so many digital “bits” and so only so many “levels” of any of the colours – the range is just not wide enough for reality – and it would not make any difference if it was – because your screens you view the images on are ALSO not capable of reproducing the brilliance of sunlight. Sparks filmmaking classes are available for ages 5-18 and run throughout the year, usually at the weekends or after school. Australian author David Rawlings has just won a 2019 Christy Award for his debut novel, The Baggage Handler, so I wanted to find out how his second novel fared in comparison. So when someone comes along with a beautiful HDR photo and the photographic “experts” complain about HDR not being “pure” it reminds me of the people who say that valves are best (generalisation – the old ways are the best which simply isn’t true) – I find myself smiling.

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By 1839 the first commercially available cameras were on the market—and while it would be another half a century before George Eastman released his affordable Kodak model, it was now officially possible to document life through the lens of a camera. Kent, David (1993). Australian Chart Book 1970–1992 (illustrateded.). St Ives, N.S.W.: Australian Chart Book. ISBN 0-646-11917-6. Now, not everyone will agree with me. One of the strengths of The Baggage Handler was that so many readers could find themselves in one of the three characters: the ambitious businessman, the harried housewife, the teen trying to find his own definition of success. The Camera Never Lies has a narrower set of characters, but I found them just as relateable. And they’re still asking a universal question:

This course is a short taster on the topic of the use of Images, Film, and their use in historical interpretation in the 20th century. It is primarily provided for those who have a general interest in history that draws on photojournalism as primary evidence, and films based on historical events. Swapping from a wide-angle to a telephoto lens can make people look like they’re standing closer together than they really are. Repositioning a few light sources can turn a cheerful scene into one that’s ominous and foreboding. Narrowing the depth of field can draw attention to a single detail while blurring out the rest of the scene.

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Then we have to go one step further, putting that trust into action by following where He leads and living like He commands. Nobody in the acting, fashion, celebrity, tabloid or advertising industries would have argued this, even long before digital photo manipulation became widespread. A simple change in lighting could make a celebrity look beautiful, or haggard, depending on the tabloid photographer’s intent. As producers of photography we have in these times a responsibility to draw attention to the fact that images in some cases does not show the proximity of objects as accurately as people seems to believe. This is a case where a basic, nerdy photography-fact has gained new meaning, because of a global event.” Roberts, David (2006). British Hit Singles & Albums (19thed.). London: Guinness World Records Limited. p.407. ISBN 1-904994-10-5.