# PTE Reading MCM #2: Subjectivity in Photographic...

Reading: Multiple Choice, Multiple Answers #2 - Level 1 - Feeds Reading

> Read the text and answer the question by choosing all the options that are correct. More than one answer is correct, and a wrong choice costs a point.

When we look at a colour photograph ... we have moved ... away from ... the object's intrinsic reality, imposing several extra levels of interpretation. The particular chemical composition of the photographic process USD is one level; the colour film (or digital camera) itself automatically reacts to and records colour in the way it has been chemically or electronically profiled or programmed, to do. Then there is the subjectivity of the color creativity of the photographer, their eye behind the camera. Photographers have to experiment with what is available and discern a way of representing colour that suits their particular visual aesthetic. Then the viewer imposes yet another level of interpretation, bringing his or her colour appreciation to the existing photographs. If photographs are printed, copied, scanned, viewed on a screen, or reproduced on the pages of a book as here, then we are several generations and several future levels of interpretation away from that original colour reflecting object. Is it any wonder that colour photography behaviorally difficult to describe accurately - and that reactions to it are so diverse - given its wonderful subjective variations?

According to the passage, which of the following aspects make it difficult to objectively describe colour photography?

- the failure of critics to develop an agreed vocabulary of colour
- the chemical composition of the film
- the move to an electronically determined aesthetic
- objectively of colour awareness
- the viewer's sense of colour appreciation
- the generational gap between the object and the photograph

## Answer

- the chemical composition of the film
- the viewer's sense of colour appreciation

## Explanation

The passage explicitly identifies the chemical composition of the photographic process and the viewer's subjective appreciation as key layers of interpretation that distance the image from the original object.

## Hints

- Look for the specific stages mentioned in the text where the image is modified or interpreted.
- The author lists technical aspects and human elements that contribute to the final photograph.

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