Day 127 - You noticed the guy with a cup, right? The photo contains a whole lot of other people though. I snapped it the other evening at our local night market.
Photos can lie. You've probably known this since you were a kid. However, photos can be manipulated subtly too. Just as an author carefully chooses the words he or she uses, a skilled photo editor brings important features to the forefront or hides parts which don't help tell the story.
In the photo above, I not only cropped the edges but also blurred the surrounding folks. I made all the edges darker and less distinct too. Furthermore, I toned down the colour of the folks around the guy with a cup. There is nothing in this photo which didn't exist in reality. However, this is not how the scene looked when the image was saved by the camera. In the original image, you might not have noticed the guy with a cup.