Computer graphics experts do not in general imitate "poor" or "distorted photographs, precisely because these distorted photographs, which make the viewer conscious of the photographic process, are themselves not regarded as realistic or immediate. Thus, photographs and synthetic images achieve the same effect of erasure through different means. The photograph erases the human subject through the mechanics and chemistry of lens and film. So-called digital photography is a hybrid that combines and reconfigures these two kinds of automaticity.