Thinking of the nature of photography in line with the consideration of staged or constructed I feel that it is important to be mindful of the situation you are in and be honest with your practice. If you analyse the concept of staged and constructed where do you stop? You move a single piece of rubbish from the frame, a couple of leaves or a stone one could argue that this is that now a staged image.
The image below is a constructed image of a tree, 20 images in photoshop. The tree is real, but now you see it from every angle at the same time. I am not trying to hide the constructed nature of the image.
The image below is staged. Again this was a real thing, not a photoshop creation, but none the less I created the conditions for this to exist and it’s gone now.
Are we not staging an image every time we choose how we frame the shot? or use a method of production? Probably not to any level that one needs to worry about.
