Ok, Seriously how dead is...
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- martinadolfsson
...still photography?
- pango0
poke it. see if it moves.
my question to your question. how do you define dead?
just because there are idiots take shit load of cliche photo doesn't mean its dead. there are still a lot of amazing work being produced.
- scarabin0
hipstamatic is the autotune of photography
- pango0
^ HDR + tone mapping photos too.
don't get me wrong. It can create really amazing effect but too many people are using it like "make my logo bigger cream".
- inteliboy0
for those of us who've sourced and taken apart crazy old cameras, developed our own film, obsessed over different film stocks, dev techniques, compose and take only one shot at a time etc etc.... hipstamatic takes a big sloppy obnoxious turd all over this.
- inteliboy0
can only imagine how a typesetter would feel...
/rant OVER.
- CGN0
hmm....
- georgesIII0
_Flash died the day photography and was abbandoned by 2advanced
(crossbreeding rants from diverse thread is awesome)
- clearThoughts0
photography isn't dead at all,
professional very well paid photographers maybe...
- DaveO0
I ask you this though, with all internet film content, what's the percentage of actually watching it all the way to the end and not FFWDing it or skipping around?
I've noticed that lots of photographers are now 'directing' to keep up with the onslaught of the 'new' medium. Film is not a new medium at all.
We'll always need still photography, as we don't live in minority report just yet.
- Projectile0
you can't photoshop a video. So still photography is necessary to uphold the illusion that there are 10/10 hotties out there.
- johnnnnyh0
I would say it is enjoying a renaissance right now. So I think you're "how dead" statement is a little out of touch with what's happening. Agree that video/moving image is bleeding into the still photographer's camp but there are loads of factors that suggest stills photography is a growth area at the moment.
- neandersthal0
Just because the technology changes in how we produce, print and view them is different, doesn't mean it's dead. Maybe it's seemingly more abundant and shit with the emergence of the ubiquitous photo blog; but quality, talent, and an eye for the unusual is still very much alive. Even more so in a world where middle of the road is seemingly everywhere. Maybe it's trickier for photographers to be able to command a bonkers day rate but that's more an indication of the world and changing business models than a reflection that photography is dead.
- jetSkii0
why would you only want to see one frame of a video for longer than a second?
- johnnnnyh0
"seemingly more abundant and shit" -
Which means people will learn how to differentiate. Having a device which allows you to take photographs does not make you a photographer.
- jetSkii0
^ what are you talking about? one who takes a photograph is a photographer. if not, what are they?
- DaveO0
^
That is very true. So, SO many terrible amatuers out there who call themselves photographers, which is a fucking insult to the craft. Sure you can buy a 5D and start taking pictures that look nice when you're on vacation or whatever but it don't make you a photographer by any means.It really frustrates me. There's a model friend of mine in New York who takes iPhone pictures of people asleep on the subway and she's thinking about becoming a photographer because people liked the facebook album. Aint that easy.
- jetSkii0
^ so she is an amateur photographer. a professional photographer should help cultivate her inspiration and show them the ways.
- georgesIII0
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