This is a companion post to this previous one. 

That post explored the photographer being immersed in the bushland rather than separate from it. It asked the question: 'can the idea of  photography as poetics  provide a different conception of truth to the  indexical  correspondent one, which is  the traditional understanding of truth in photography.'

The photo can  disclose a moment in the bushland. Photography as poiesis is a mode of disclosure  (aletheia) of being. Discloses in the sense of opens up or unconceals. In doing so the photo is  both a poetics and is thoughtful.

The basic simplicity of the  Leica film camera  enables this approach when compared to the iPhone . The former is  a  technology that lets us explore our preferences,  rather than imposing its own AI defaults upon us as does the latter. 

For instance, the iPhone's automated image processing treats contrast as a problem to be solved, aggressively darkening the highlights and lightening up the shadows. What results  from the algorithmic editing  that merges many separate images together to create one composite is  a bland flatness.  This A.I decision-making is only going to increase with the iPhone.