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The kind of stuff the op is doing—-changing the composition to reflect a picture that could have been taken—-is one thing. But what you are asking feels Stalin-esque to me. A picture is a record of a point in time and you can’t change the past.

>>bradle+(OP)
A picture is a record of a point in time and you can’t change the past.

I don’t think either of those things are true. Both can be changed, and are often changed. Much of what we ‘know’ of the past is wrong.

>>bradle+(OP)
Sure you can, just as you can change people's memories and implant false ones. Hell, in this dystopia we're headed towards, it'll probably be a subscription service where you can rewrite 5 bad memories a month for $29/mo

>>bradle+(OP)
This is why my family portrait is going to be a painting. In the future, you can just paint in the new generations and we can all be in the same frame together.