Level of quality in work
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- Knuckleberry0
I completely agree. I have a few friends that are photographers. One of them went through training/ school and is great. One bought a camera and decided to start "shooting" everything... horribly.
I agree completely with what nosaj said about everything... except the music part. Self taught musicians are usually the most creative and groundbreaking... Mr. Hendrix.
- instrmntl0
Macro Lens + Hi-Res = Photography Gold
i hate that equation and completely agree. it drives me nuts.
- vaxorcist0
whatever... we thought the same thing in the 80's when autofocus came out... and those vietnam photographers thought the same thing with autoexposure came out.... and the 50's photographers thought the same thing when the Nikon F could shoot 36 shots with a motor drive rather than their Speed Graphics 1 shot at a time....
....etc...
But I do see that the learning curve may be faster for a dedicated person with talent, skill can be acquired through dilligent practice, there are fewer old-prof gatekeepers of sacred knowledge these days, and for me that's a good thing....
- davebellechique0
quality floats on top.
it's just fine that about everyone can take a more or less decent picture.
the democratisation of artistic skills only drives us into more perfection, pushes us to work harder and make better work
- davebellechique0
my family album from when i was young are full with horribly exposed and bad framed pictures, now the camera does it for you and your kids will go into eternity looking good : P
- vaxorcist0
I just finished a test shoot with a 5D/Mk II, a lot of lights, L lenses etc...
and I looked at the impeccibly lit and composed images..... and I see.... alot of near-misses... I often didn't emotionally connect as well as I would have liked to with the models.... there's a certain lack of chemistry here sometimes... it was a test shoot, and that's okay, but I'm seeing how doing so many tests that you think much more about your interaction with people than anything else, it begins to show in images with more charisma and connection... some models do that almost automatically, most don't so we have to cajole them.... an interesting skill I'm learning..
- ckentish0
You sound very elitist. I am 100% behind democratisation of all media and as someone said above the cream will rise to the top.
The difference now is that the cream will become successful through democratic opinion and not just a few elite taste-makers at the top.
- cannonball19780
let your own work be the comment you make about quality
- mikotondria30
There's a world of difference between technical quality and aesthetic quality.
New equipment can produce 20Meg images of perfect exposure and focus and chips can capture the wonderfully subtle variations of color and shade and contrast that almost rival that of our eyes, and anyone can take a picture that is technically a marvel compared to anything that even the best professionals could ever have managed a generation or 2, or 3 ago.
But that's not what photography is. A good photograph can change the world, capturing and placing the viewer at a place in history, or just revealing a hidden world of human emotion or an abstract fantastic idea.
What cannot really be taught or engineered is vision - seeing the unseen and capturing it, whether with a brush a mouse or a lens.- yes in a way, the standard of some things has vastly improved...others not so much...vaxorcist
- jfletcher0
differenz - Nikon FM2!! Love it. It'sa the only camera I shot with for about 8 years!
The one thing that makes me upset [and this will make me seem old] is that when I learn photography, we had to *understand photography. How film worked, how a camera worked. We made our own camera first... pinhole style, both film and paper.
Now I buy a camer, hit a button and boom, it's done for me. Part of that is my wishing I had this tech when I was younger :\
...but I agree with others here. More camera mean more photos, more people being "photographers", but it doesn't change that some people are grwat and others aren't. It's the same thing with design. People use Photoshop/Illustrator/can make websites. Doesn't make them a designer.
It's frustrating, but I'm sure I've done it (marginalized) to other disciplines too and not realized it :\
- not that much difference in a way.... I had a Nikon F, old 120 cameras,etc.. similar to digicam in manual anyway....vaxorcist