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avisser | 20 days ago

Putting on my pedantic hat, does this qualify as a picture of the mountains? As in, is there any light hitting the mountains, then hitting the film/sensor?

Or is this just an elaborate silhouette?

Is that a difference? I don't know.

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tshaddox|20 days ago

Is a silhouette not a "picture"? Perhaps "picture" isn't the best term to quibble over, since it is quite broad (arguably its primary use is referring to paintings or drawings).

But if we instead quibble over the term "photograph," I'd argue that a photograph of a silhouette of a mountain is absolutely a photograph of a mountain. Similarly, I'd argue that X-ray photography is indeed photography.

bratbag|20 days ago

Its a really interesting question.

Lets take it to its farthest extent: can you take a picture of a black hole?

tshaddox|20 days ago

Or how about this: can you take a photograph of a shadow?