Canon 5d Question
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I understand and agree.
Especially where your talking about the genius kid down the street not having the limitations on equipment.
Where I somewhat deviate, is talking about the average consumer, I feel like we put some pride of place on art - as if its something that most people cant achieve or understand. I think, if we gave 5d's to 1000 average highschoolers (and told them to throw away everything they did for the first month) - once they got into it , there would be little difference to what Ansel adamn and Darren Aronofsky. At the end of the day, art is just expression of the human psyche / experience or thought. If any part of photography is up for discussion, interpretation or if any part comes natural...its the art part. I feel , in a way its always been the equipment that discourages...and now that is gone. The budding artist - sees the crappy result due to a cheap lens, holds it up to a professional and says ... I cant do that. Now all he has to work on his/her framing, reference, storytelling etc. But we do that everyday in everything we do ... it would just need to be applied to photogrpahy
i think where the problem lies, is the photographer that has nothing to do with art - the freelancer without a cult following. The guy who takes shots of clothes, or buildings, they guy who takes photo's of models to express a new fashion line. Yes there is always art involved, but espically in the fashion industry, its all thoughts and feelings - and anyone can produce that - anyone who cares about their work will take their work to that artistic level; and try to find interesting angles, and interplays of material - concepts and piggybacking off of client requests with their own experiences.